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...bold! Be bold!" was a favorite Occidental maxim of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen (TIME, March 23, 1925), founder of China's present Nationalist Government. Nearly always the tail end of the maxim (". . . but not too bold!") was docked in quotation by dynamic, heroic Sun Yatsen. Last week it seemed that the penchant for daring of Saint Sun was cropping out strongly in his son, Mr. Sun Fo, who is Chinese Minister of Railways and Reconstruction. Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works...
When Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov appeared at Geneva and offered to sign with the Great Powers a pact of total disarmament (TIME, Dec. 12, 1927), he was called a hypocrite. When he appeared again, this time with a pact of partial disarmament (TIME, April 2), the Acting Foreign-Minister of Soviet Russia was once more called a hypocrite. Nobody believed that Red Russia would keep a pledge to disarm...
...Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov arose, and in the course of welcoming the plenipotentiaries of Rumania, Poland, Latvia and Esthonia, referred to Rumania as "a country with which we had serious difficulties-difficulties not settled by this protocol...
...leader long before it received general publicity) and high standards of living. He believes in and sets an example of hard work. He also believes in vacations, saying that a man who works twelve months does only eight months' work. As for getting ahead in the world, his maxim is: "Roasted pigeons don't fly into a man's mouth...
...seemed a flat challenge to the economic legend embodied in Calvin Coolidge. Said Mr. Ford: "No successful boy ever saved any money. They spent it as fast as they got it for things to improve themselves." Mr. Ford obviously did not have Calvin Coolidge in mind while uttering this maxim...