Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's Hitler (last year's MAN) : Here is a boy who is long overdue. Cannot TIME bring him out again, and finish the job? It might atone for some of the innocents you have put the hex on. ...
His subjects called him "Ferdinand the Loyal." He was a Hohenzollern from Germany. But he made the decision (it was not forced upon him) to enter the first World War against his own kinsmen in defense of his adopted country. This was not weakness. His statesmanship gave to Rumania universal...
Not long afterward Nelson Johnson left for Peking and one of the most important posts in the U. S. diplomatic service. He carried with him the supply of little paper airplanes. For ten years since then, U. S. Far Eastern policy has ridden on little paper wings-unpredictable, steered by...
He loved China. He was like a blotter for the language, and soon he was reading both newspapers and classics. His early changes of post gave him a habit of restlessness from which he has never relaxed: from Peking to bleak Mukden, Russified Harbin, hilly Hankow, busy Shanghai, river-girt...
Through trying times-civil war, Japan's invasion of Manchuria, the Shanghai warfare of 1932-he was Johnson on the Spot. He watched the Shanghai bombings from the roof of a cotton mill. He liked to call himself the Commuting Minister, and preferred the hinterland ton Westernized coastal cities...