Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written as the by-product of an eminently successful scientific foray, this volume is not a handbook or history of the country. But as an absorbing narrative, it does succeed in giving us much of the flavor of a land where alarm clocks lie buried with emperors and it is good form to have stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over...
...trial was not the kind which is explained in any handbook of civics. It took place in the headlines and in Room 304 in the U. S. Senate office building where sits the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. Defendant Mitchell had been charged with no crime. But had he failed to appear, he would have been clapped promptly into jail ("contempt of the Senate"). There was no attorney for the defense. There was, however, a prosecution. It consisted of 1) six to a dozen Senators and 2) a man quite as remarkable as any of the Senators, Ferdinand Pecora...
TIME'S statement is amply proved by the nonexistence in Russia of a single newsorgan hostile or even neutral to the Government. All without exception are State yes-papers and Izvestia (according to the 1932 Political Handbook of the U. S. Council on Foreign Relations, p. 167) is the "official organ" of the Soviet Government...
...down because there were too many recruits. He got a temporary job in the Geographic Section of the General Staff. Four months later he was sent to Egypt. There, besides making himself a thorn in the flesh of red-taped, uninformed superiors, he did such jobs as edit a handbook of information about the Turkish Army, containing such unsoldierly comments as "General Abd el Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery expert; but a vicious scoundrel, and will accept bribes." Chafing at the restrictions and routine...
...reports the Southern Baptist Handbook for 1932, published last week. Listed as money misspent: $46,200,000 a year on tobacco; $26,000,000 on cinema; $21,580,000 on automobile outings; $35,000,000 on soft drinks and chewing gum; more than $43,000,000 on cosmetics. The Southern Baptist Church needs $40,000,000. "Look about you. . . . quit YOUR WHINING!" cries the Handbook...