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...poppy. Of the Manchukuo Opium Monopoly, financed by a Japanese loan, Mr. Fuller snapped, "There can be no question that the concern was established for the express purpose of extending and exploiting the smoking of opium!" Across the League table, as these charges were hurled, sat Japan's placid Masayuki Yokoyama, puffing a cigar. Japan has re-signed from the League and the U. S. has never belonged. After Mr. Fuller had wound up by calling the narcotic situation in Manchukuo a "menace to the United States," Mr. Yokoyama took refuge in the fact that Manchukuo had not even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Puppet's Poppies | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...tobogganed and alarm grew so general that troops had to be thrown around the home of Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang and the entire government quarter of Nanking. As Dr. Soong's successor Generalissimo Chiang picked the famed 75th lineal descendant of China's great sage Confucius, plump and placid Dr. H, H. Kung who smokes every day some 15 Havana cigars especially banded "Dr. H. H. Kung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Soong Out | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...countries neighboring Germany were jangle-nerved last week, but Denmark's hulking pacifist Premier, auburn-bearded, cigar-rolling Thorvald Stauning, was absolutely frantic. Three years ago his Cabinet took the somewhat feminine position that Denmark, if attacked, had better scream for help rather than fight. Announced plump and placid Defense Minister Lauritz Rasmussen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Preventative War? | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

From the newsprints of Chicago comes a mellow little saga regarding the American Legion Convention held there last week. In the lobby of the Palmer House, one of the nation's most placid and unruffled hostelries, a number of legionnaires were disporting drunkenly in their underclothing when some veteran wag possessed himself of a knife and cut loose. Even Chicago the unshockable found this rather heavy footed, and were it not that the Legion constituted a sacrosanct mine of large emotions and useful votes, the reformers would certainly have reached for their hatchets and carved its scalp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/26/1933 | See Source »

...number of lies, often on important things, they have raved and stamped their feet and babbled in the true Hearstian metaphysic, and in this wise many heads have been broken and many papers sold. But their energy has not created a movement: the main current of British journalism is placid and undisturbed, and in the mention of a double column headline its managing editors still find the potent smell of heresy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/19/1933 | See Source »

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