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On a mountainside in Kwangtung Province last week a Japanese naval plane crashed, killing bull-necked Admiral Baron Mineo Osumi, 64, Japan's Chief War Councilor. Known in Japan as a liberal influence second only to the late Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Admiral Osumi was nevertheless also a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: End of Osumi | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Tennessee's chicken-necked Boss Ed Crump once found it convenient to play ball with Memphis' Republican Negro boss. That was when there was a Republican in the White House and the Negro boss had Federal patronage to dispose of. Since Roosevelt, there has not even been a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: White Man's Country | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

President Vargas certainly ought to have known that. In his 10,000 miles, which had carried him up the Amazon basin from Belem to Manaus and beyond, he had rubber-necked at a few of an estimated 300,000,000 untapped wild rubber trees, visited Fordlandia and Belterra, where Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Rubber Rebound? | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Lean, long-necked Clark, a better-than-average bowler as well as St. Paul municipal golf champion, split the narrow fairways with his long drives, chipped dead to the pin, took the starch out of jittery Dietz who tried hard to make a good showing before his home-town folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Public Linksters | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

The brothers of the Society of St. John the Evangelist are Catholics in faith and tradition, but for historical reasons they deny papal authority and dislike being lumped together with the Roman Church. They hold five services a day, and take their meals in silence while the Father Superior reads...

Author: By F. H. B., | Title: Circling the Square | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

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