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...railroads in China are characterized by wholesale inefficiency in all departments and wholesale lack of experienced personnel. Every railroad in China, with the exception of the Shanghai-Nan-king and the Peking-Mukden, is bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Railways | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...acts of the stage show are good but the booker made the mistake of engaging three tap dancers on one program and good as they all are the dose is a heavy one. There are one or two comic acts that meet with some success. As for Nan Halperin, the headliner, the word propriety seems to have lost its meaning for her. And this is Boston...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...grams from Governor Émile Moreau of the Bank of France. In the case of the Allied Powers, M. Moreau was told whom to invite by the governors of the respective banks of issue who all chose financiers from within their own organizations. Thus keen, patrician Montagu Collet Nor:nan, Governor of the Bank of England, chose a famed member of its board, Sir Charles Stewart Addis, sire of six sons, seven daughters. A leading director, of the great Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Sir Charles has interests throughout ; Asia, is chairman of :the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Charter Men | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...resents any influence upon his wife's life which is extraneous from the elemental man-woman relationship. He is jealous of his wife's bridge clubs, golf, children; his is a supremely introversive ego. This good piece recounts the story of John Payson, green-ired husband of Nan. John (John Boles) wants to lead his wife's life. From an afternooon party Nan (Leatrice Joy) comes home befuddled, having been locked accidentally in the wine-cellar of Jules Moret (H. B. Warner) whose name alone, as every cinemaddict knows, reeks of malevolence, depravity. When John flays Nan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...President's brother), Mrs. Ralph Lewis and Mrs. H. H. Votaw (the late Presidents sisters), conferred with friends in Marion, Ohio. Letters from other friends had been pouring in urging action of some kind. Grant E. Mouser of Marion, a lifelong friend of President Harding and often host to Nan Britton, was the author of the following statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unwarranted Attack | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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