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...Inquisitor Walsh propounded a question of legal ethics, suggesting that plump, dapper, white-haired Lawyer Martin W. Littleton might well resign as Sinclair's lawyer. At Sinclair's last trial, Lawyer Littleton said that Sinclair was in no wise connected with the Continental Trading Co., a mysterious, short-lived oil-trading company out of whose profits, transformed into Liberty Bonds, the G. O. P. is now known to have received $160,000 from Sinclair for its Harding campaign deficit. Unless Lawyer Littleton lied to the jury, which Inquisitor Walsh felt was unthinkable, Sinclair must have lied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Long, Long Trial | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Irritation. Lieut. Maitland told of Col. Lindbergh's entertainment at a Long Island country club. "A plump matron rushed across the room to his table, flung her arms about his neck and kissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Lindbergh Saga | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Occidentals are aware of Mustafa Nahass Pasha, a statesman who greatly resembles in appearance plump, black-mustachioed King Fuad I of Egypt. Politically the King and Pasha are poles apart?the Sovereign a British puppet, the statesman a firebrand Egyptian Nationalist. Therefore it is significant that, last week, King Fuad gave the Prime Ministry of Egypt to Mustafa Nahass Pasha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Experimental Cabinet | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Jugoslavia carried home to Belgrade in her special train, last week, documents transferring to her a huge cash legacy from her late father, King Ferdinand of Rumania (TIME, Aug. i). Generous, the bequest amounts to 80,000,000 lei ($4,800,000), a sour grape for Rumanians, a plump plum for Jugoslavs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Legacy, Confidences | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

From the East Indian realm of plump and prim Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands came challenging news that rubber production there has topped 93,000 tons for 1927*, an increase of almost 400% in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Global Rubber War | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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