Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit of uncritical adulation which began with the Frank Lloyd Wright piece [TIME. Jan. 17] seems to have gotten out of hand in your current blurb on Corcoran & Cohen. Please remember that what your customers expect from you is salt, with maybe a dash of vinegar: but never oil and never sugar...
Ultra-tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy is the famed veteran hero of the Czechoslovak legions who stormed clear across Russia during the Russian Revolution, sailed from Vladivostok to rejoin their comrades in the homeland. It was smart for President Benes to give out last week that "yielding to fresh foreign pressure" he was unable to appoint as Premier General Syrovy, the people's choice, but had to choose instead a civilian, the Governor of Moravia, Jan Cerny- especially since it turned out a few hours later that redoubtable General Syrovy had actually been appointed Premier and had instantly...
...Kelty, "Ep" Hoyt's boss until four years ago, stayed at his post. Youthful Lester Arden ("Pang") Pangborn was upped from executive news editor to managing editor. Retained as nonresident consultant was Newspaper Doctor Guy T. Viskniskki, who was summoned in 1934 to modernize the ailing Oregonian (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935), did such a good job it is once more Portland's largest paper (108,350 daily, 145,130 Sunday), is once more making money...
...demanded Czechoslovakia yield part of the Sudetenland to Germany with out even a plebiscite. "Impossible ! That can't be true!" Government officials cried as press wires first broke the news, later confirmed to President Benes by the British and French Ministers. In London, the shock "cracked" Czechoslovak Minister Jan Masaryk, son of the late founder of Czechoslovakia, and he took his break down to bed. In Paris, the Czech Minister Stefan Osusky left the Foreign Office with tears in his eyes, crying: "Do you want to see a man convicted without a hearing? Here I stand!" In Moscow...
...Ignace Jan Paderewski (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC-Blue). Famed Polish pianist-patriot plays for the first time over U. S. radio, by short wave from Lausanne, Switzerland, for the Magic...