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Minister Washburn considered it his duty and made it his hobby to obtain a profound grasp of all the secret machinations and counter-machinations of the Socialist and Reactionary irregular armies in Austria: the Schutzbund and the Heimwher. During Vienna's "Red Revolution" in 1927, when the capital was cut off by railway and telegraph strikes from the world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Washburn | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...great gravities of the planets affect each other as they circle around the Sun and make their orbits slightly irregular. It was man's mathematical ability to measure such orbital variations that permitted Astronomer Lowell to declare that an unknown planet was butting Neptune's orbit out of its regularly irregular shape and to predict just where in the heavens a sufficiently powerful telescope, which did not exist during his life, would reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Percival? Cronos? | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...sinister ubiquitous, omniscient Father Rothschild, the Honorable Walter Outrage, "last week's Prime Minister," Agatha Runcible, loudest if not brightest of the Bright Young People, Lottie Crump, proprietress of the crazy London hotel (it really exists) where everyone drinks champagne from dawn to dusk, where bills are infrequent, irregular, but inescapable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Entertainer | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...admission pleased Dr. Morris Fishbein who has been managing the American Medical Association's long and harsh fight against chiropractors and irregular practitioners of medicine. Dr. Fishbein recently prophesied that chiropractic would perish within two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Business, Dull for 20,000 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...Finance Com mittee occurred when Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett resigned to become Ambassador to Germany. To take his place Senator John Thomas of Idaho was chosen. Kansas-born, banker, stockman, twice Idaho's Republican National Committeeman, Senator Thomas was accept able to his Eastern colleagues because he is only irregularly irregular in his senate votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: La Follette to Finance | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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