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...wife of a dentist, had obtained the money by selling gold from the teeth of Navy Minister Matsumasa Yonai after work done in her husband's office. Enthusiastic citizens of Durham, N. C. ("The Friendly City"), gave a dinner for American Tobacco President George Washington Hill, there to inspect his plant. One of the hosts, Publisher Carl C. Council arranged to have his Durham Herald City Editor Bob Mason interview President Hill after the festivities. City Editor Mason appeared, was given no interview, carried away only an impression of a flashily-dressed man in a rich brown suit, bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Enough of German Art and enough of fake war was what Benito Mussolini had had by this time. He wanted to inspect one of the most closely guarded set of secrets in Germany: the mighty Krupp munitions works at Essen. Only trouble with this was that, instead of speeding a few miles to Berlin as planned, the Dictators would have to travel clear across Germany again to Essen in the west, then cross it once more to Berlin. But what Mussolini wants Mussolini wants. To a microphone leaped German Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Strong Peace | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Another source of employment for veterinarians is the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, whose men inspect meat both on the hoof and in slaughter houses. All these inspectors are graduates of recognized veterinary colleges. Last week the Chief of the Bureau, Dr. John Robbins Mohler, who is celebrating his fortieth year in the service and who is one of the biggest employers of veterinarians on earth (800), went to Omaha to boast that "the U. S. has become the safest country in the world in which to engage in breeding and raising domestic animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinarians in Omaha | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...secretary who can telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue of people who have been waiting for hours, interview a deputy commissioner, perform a marriage for an eager friend, rush off to inspect a swimming pool, a hospital, a ferryboat or a street accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: For Job No. 3 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Next morning he was in Hyde Park to inspect a new firebreak in his woods, letting newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Plague, Dunces, Du Ponts | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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