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...decision on the Rumanian Government's request that Mme. Lupescu and ex-Lord Chamberlain Udarianu be sent back to Bucharest to stand trial, respectively, for the "murder" of No. 1 Iron Guardist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the looting of the Rumanian treasury. The Rumanian "party" were apparently still under genteel Spanish detainment. Carol had been invited to Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quakes and Carol | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Baxter's letters are eloquent and solemn, might have been written 50 years ago. He loves to write of ancient monuments, of white-haired workmen pondering on Britain's mighty past. For spice he tells such genteel stories as the one about the airraid warden. (Warden: "There's a chink showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Beaver's Bax | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Biggest little party was the Socialist Party, the Wailing Wall where genteel liberals could go to decry Republicans and Democrats alike and cast a respectable protest vote against the cacophonies of conscription and capitalism. Their candidate for President: persistent, patient Norman Mattoon Thomas, who, seeing the U. S. drifting into "imperialism abroad and fascism at home," declared: "The only opportunity for escape is a change of the people towards a cooperative commonwealth with machinery harnessed to overcome poverty, and not for the use of militarism." For Vice President: Maynard C. Krueger, University of Chicago economist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Minorities | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...only Boston bar traditionally associated with Harvard is the Riiz--inexpensive, crowded, and the place where simply everybody is seen. The Copley and Statler have conservatively genteel bars--keep away from the Merry-go-round bar at the former if you get dizzy easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFF-CAMPUS ENTERTAINMENT VARIES FROM GIRLS' COLLEGES TO LOCAL BARS | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

Nearly all of them are frank, formularized potboilers, a virtuoso's improvisations on minor themes. Tempered to the genteel tastes of The New Yorker, these pieces seldom hold a Roman candle to real Ginsbergh fireworks. Yet they are also as hard, sharp, bright and cold as a display of surgical instruments; and sometimes they do genuinely surgical work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surgical Instruments | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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