Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found both Thomas Mann and Gustav Stresemann (then an unfamed Reichstag Deputy) ranged hot on the side of Kaiserdom and Conquest. Mann's War-time essays, Reflections of a Non-political Man, show that he shared the general will to spread kultur by the bayonet. Like Stresemann he changed his whole political philosophy after defeat. Both men have been flayed as opportunists. Last week in strongly Royalist Munich, where Republican Mann still lives, news of the Nobel Prize was frigidly received by the newspapers, given scant space, small praise...
...Thus without putting up a cent the Federal Reserve?traditionally in closest touch with the House of Morgan ?will have a major "phantom stake" in the Bank. The same arrangement appealed to cautious, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who, by advice of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, prefers like President Hoover to keep-the-government-out-of-business. Japan's "Messrs. X" will be a consortium of 14 banks, led by the Bank of Japan, the Mitsui Bank and the Yokohama Specie Bank...
...kind,* but scarcely any of those exercised in general business financing by an ordinary bank or bank-of-issue.? Jealously decreed these prohibitions. They were forced upon the Baden-Baden bankers by the European banks of issue?especially the Bank of England? which feared the competition of anything like a "World Bank." The new Cash Register thus does not measure up to the original grand conception of Owen D. Young and the drafters of the Young Plan (TIME, Feb. 18 to June 10). They advised that the Bank?chief organ of the Plan?should provide "useful instruments for opening...
...rich woman in her diary two years ago. Death came to her in shame and poverty last week. She died of pneumonia without receiving a word or line of sympathy from her first cousin George V, King and Emperor. Her brother, Wilhelm II, telephoned to ask if she would like to see him at the last. "Nein, nein," whispered Victoria of Hohenzollern, "I don't want to see anybody but my nurses...
...Great God!' I exclaimed in stupefaction, 'I should never have thought that. How times have changed! Women of that age used to wear grandmothers' bonnets. Today it seems they play tennis like young girls...