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Some Italian editors echo Il Duce louder than others, but always loudest is young Editor Mario Carli of L'Impero ("Orders is Orders"). It was he who last year called Austria ''a miserable spitoon" when relations were strained with that country (TIME, April 22). His headline on the Naval Conference last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCE: Hero! Hero! | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Through the wildly grotesque back-ground of this superficially grotesque story revolve the figures of: Mrs. Melrose Ape and her troupe of traveling angels. Chastity, Divine Discontent, etc.; the 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 »

Because the Treasury does not publish the whys and wherefores of each refund, many a senator has made loud complaint against the secret system of refunds. In the past one of the loudest complainants has been Senator James Couzens of Michigan. This year's list carries a tax refund of $989,883 for him. No explanations were necessary because, as everyone knows, the U. S. had sued Senator Couzens for $10,000,000 as unpaid taxes on his profits from the sale of his Ford Motor Co. stock, had not only lost its case but had been ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Tax Refunds | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...Business, not Astronomy, is the loudest and strongest change urger. For under the present irregular system, accounting is beset by problems when it tries to compare the costs of months whose working days vary in number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sol | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

This habit or custom is very impressive, because it always occurs when perfect quiet otherwise prevails. The one able to blow the loudest blast is always rewarded by grateful smiles and looks of indulgence from his countrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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