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En route to the conference last week owl-eyed Premier Wang Ching-Wei set an example of close-lipped secrecy which was followed by all except Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, stogie-smoking Christian descendant of Confucius. He felt obliged to comment on President Roosevelt's nationalization of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang on Lid | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

Dr. Schmitt is well known to favor devaluation of the German mark by 20%. The staggering powers slipped into his hands last week resemble those granted by the U. S. Congress to Franklin Roosevelt, some of which the President has of course not used. Tight-lipped Tsar Schmitt gave no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crux of Crisis | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Close-lipped Chancellor Dollfuss remained grimly silent but his official Wiener Zeitung roundly declared: "No reasonable observer of German events believes in the official version that Captain Roehm and his accomplices were just about to launch an armed revolt. It is unthinkable that an experienced soldier like Captain Roehm would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Cowardice & Compromise | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

(4 of 6) libraries. Behind silver-rimmed spectacles his blue eyes are spring cool. Thin-lipped, with a slow, warm, easy smile, he talks softly in a rich baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Princeton & Patriotism | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

He was a lean, thin-lipped, high-strung writer named Louis Burgess, who turned out editorials for $75 a week on Hearst's San Francisco Examiner until last spring, when he was elected chairman of the Guild's newly organized Examiner chapter. Three weeks later the Examiner discharged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newshawks' Guild | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

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