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...Hurleys reached Tokyo. U. S. Ambassador Forbes entertained them Japanese style. They took off their shoes and sat on the floor. Between courses they watched geisha girls dance. While Mrs. Hurley, well-traveled daughter of an admiral, nimbly manipulated her chopsticks, her Oklahoma husband had to fumble with a fork. At Shanghai, despite the season's worst typhoon, Secretary Hurley went ashore at the jetty, reviewed a battalion of U. S. Marines, got soaking wet. Under a Chinese umbrella Mrs. Hurley shopped in Nanking Road, marveled at bargains due to the low exchange rate. And finally last week after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eyes & Ears | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Recently at a Soviet banquet British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey noticed with a start that his fork bore the coat of arms of Great Britain, had presumably been stolen from the pre-Revolution British Embassy at Petrograd (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Spoons, Knives, Forks | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...banquet given recently by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, Sir Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador, was startled by his fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Sir E. Ovey's Fork | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Spanish Fork, Utah, a car in which Robert Olsen Jr., 2, was riding overturned, threw him 20 ft. Robert Olsen landed in a mudbank, was unhurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Stare | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...French banks), high executive of the famed Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-lits. Came too the man who is reorganizing the French sugar industry, M. Edmond Sommier of the refineries that bear his name. Also M. Eugene Schneider whose big and little guns are so esteemed. Down sat all to fork and sip with such equals as Manhattan's Gates W. McGarrah, now president of Europe's B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Paris house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Power | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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