Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, this important gentleman is 30, robust and an inch taller than the six foot three he was when his Father took office. A model young man, his industry and ambition permit him few bad habits, and his stomach trouble permits no more than an occasional highball. Instead, he gulps down three quarts of milk daily. Unlike his father, who consumes three or four packages of cigarets each 24 hours, James smokes sparingly, usually not before dinner...
Italy is the prototype of the "Corporative State," and Dictator Hohenzollern indicated that he would generally follow Il Duce's model.* Busy launching Rumania's new Constitution along Corporative lines last week. His Majesty paused to show approximately where he stands on Rumania's vexed Jewish question (TIME, Jan. 31, et ante). The new Constitution, it was announced, would give "equality before the law" to all ethnically pure Rumanians and also to "all people of other races who have lived for centuries on Rumanian soil," thus continuing the distinction made by Jew-baiting former Premier Goga between...
Most interested listeners when J. Emory Duskin, onetime head of Alabama's real estate association, broadcast from Manhattan on Sanka Coffee Co.'s We, the People program were 1,300 convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing...
Redheaded, unscrupulous Prince Andreas Rasonski was so ugly that even peasant girls could not abide him except in the dark. His political ambitions he kept hidden for much the same reason. His model was Napoleon; his goal, to trade Polish military support for Polish independence, with himself as king. To this end he had spent ten years ingratiating himself with a powerful Polish Count, whose beautiful only daughter Dzjunka he schemed to marry in order to get working capital. It was a long shot. Dzjunka made no secret of the fact that he gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen...
...sponsors believe that the Congress will produce a high caliber of debate and a spirited exchange of opinion comparable to those of its models at Oxford and Yale. The model Constitutional Convention of last year and the Model League of Nations sessions have shown that this type of body can accomplish worthwhile results...