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...severe criticism she met in Germany when she declared a wish to become a U. S. citizen and have her two sons become Americans: "... I found on my desk letters in which gentle young Germans called me pet names. Of these 'Old Sow' was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that young Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. . . . That experience strengthened me in my resolution to raise my boys in a country in which it is not taken for granted that a woman should clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 2, 1932 | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...tomb of Genius, a witness was Comrade Anatoly Lunacharsky representing the Soviet Power. All over Russia on this day last week Soviet celebrations honored Goethe. Communism celebrated not because it approves Goethe's bourgeois works or his grand ducal associations, but because the Russian Government tries to keep on friendliest terms with the German Government and wanted to make amends for a recent attack in Moscow by a crazed Russian on Dr. Fritz von Twardowski, Councilor of the German Embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Man | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Wolf Street "shambles" were being consumed by flames. The gilded unemployed were pouring from their crested mansions while their professional colleagues moved en masse across from their habitual hang-out on the opposite corner. The Vagabond squirmed with delight as a Harvard man struck a match in the friendliest manner and offered his extracurricular acquaintance a light. The act was positively democratic and bristling with bolshevist implications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...world over, with the Dutch Fokker Aircraft Co. as nucleus. These interests include aircraft factories in Holland and Belgium, licensing arrangements in Great Britain, France and Italy; also the K. L. M. (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) airline between Holland and Batavia, which uses Fokker planes exclusively. Designer Fokker professed friendliest relations with General Aviation Corp., in which he remained largest individual stockholder and a director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Fokker Out | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Turkey is the nation on friendliest terms with Russia. Mr. Crew's stroke of trade diplomacy was a stroke of genius. Up to now the U. S. State Department has usually communicated with the Russian Foreign Office through the French Government and the French Ambassador at Moscow. In Moscow the French Embassy is looked upon as a nest of spies and provocateurs and the French Ambassador might as well be Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Mr. Fish . . . Not at Home! | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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