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...which ensued. The Powers were represented, of course, by the Big Five: 1) Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain), supercilious to correspondents but ready with a queer, cackling laugh for his colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling decisiveness the great Duce; 5) Baron Adachi (Japan), frail, insignificant in stature, piping voiced, yet with a winning and decisive mien...
...humorous, dynamic statesman is Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Last week he could suck his eternal plump cigar contentedly and even smugly over a sheaf of treasury reports. They showed that, with less than a month to go before the fiscal year ends on March 31, there is every prospect that the daring jugglery embodied in Mr. Churchill's present budget (TIME, April 18) will indeed enable him to make ends meet at his estimated total...
...column wound up a narrow valley and topped the rise it came plump upon an encampment of Sandinistas who had bivouacked at an abandoned ranch house, after taking the elementary precaution of planting a machine gun to command the valley. Despatches differed as to whether it was the Marines or the Sandinistas who were most surprised. The outcome, disgraceful to the U. S. Marine scouting service, was a prolonged pitched engagement. Only the fact that another Marine patrol, under Capt. William McNulty was in the vicinity, and rushed up at the sound of firing, prevented an ugly outcome. Eventually...
...author is a plump, merry woman with a daughter at Smith College, a son at Yale, a husband in the newspaper business. As Mrs. Nana Springer White, she lives comfortably at Hempstead, Long Island. As Miss Adele Garrison, she is an oracle on marital problems for hundreds of her readers. Her own life has taught her to use her typewriter to produce what U. S. women like. Born in Clinton Junction, Wis., she became school teacher in Milwaukee, assistant Sunday editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, feature writer and reporter for the Chicago Examiner and Chicago American...
Amelita Galli-Curci (coloratura soprano) gave her name for advertising purposes to Swami Yogananda of India and Los Angeles, Calif., a man who looks like a plump woman. She was quoted in copy in Manhattan theatre programs as saying: "YOGODA gives Health, Strength, Power to Accomplish, Peace and Poise." Among other things, YOGODA claims to teach people "to Recharge their body, mind and soul Batteries from Inner Cosmic Energy ... to meditate, to know Divine truths." Last week Swami Yogananda was ordered by the police to leave Miami, Fla., where he had been extending his practices...