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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fond du Lac, Wis. He worked for B. F. Goodrich Co.. went to War, got into advertising. One product of his War service is that he is already anonymously preserved for posterity in marble; as the central figure of New York's memorial to its 107th Regiment, he charges gallantly into Fifth Avenue at 66th Street. No believer in testimonials and the gaudier forms of advertising, he built up his agency by hard work, has devoted himself particularly to economic problems. One of his schemes made headlines fortnight ago when he proposed that, to stimulate business, all employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Agencies for Old | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...Secretary of War, when he wangled twenty days' rations for his 2070 men from an unfriendly colleague, when he dug a thousand dollars out of his own pocket to care for the sick, and when, turning over his own horses to the medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville--it was certainly time for a new nickname. "He's tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from the ranks. "Tough as hickory," observed another, naming the toughest thing he knew. That was in March 1813. Andrew Jackson has been "Old Hickory" ever since...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

...sleeves, then suddenly announced, "I am going into retirement" (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week the Government of slim, shrill Generalissimo Chiang had to send a private train to bring huge, rumbling War Lord Feng triumphantly home from Chahar. He reached Peiping like a conqueror, traveling with an entire regiment as his bodyguard, grinning and cracking his barnyard jokes at "Chiang and his Government who think they can make themselves foreigners by putting on trousers, eating with knives and forks and leaping about on smooth dance floors clutching a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Triumphant Bumpkin | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...Lies!" he grinned when told that the recapture had just been confirmed by both Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and the Japanese War office. Still grinning and munching ripe fruit, War Lord Feng pulled out of Peiping on his special train for Tientsin. Half way there he and his regiment changed to an armored train sent up from Shantung Province by his fellow war lord Governor Han Fu-chu of Shantung whom he appears to trust. Under Han's protection Feng lived during the summer of 1932 on Taishan, the Sacred Mountain near Confucius' birthplace in Shantung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Triumphant Bumpkin | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...Robert. Shaking with joy, Director Currelly pried the lid off, clawed out excelsior packing, unwrapped a surprisingly small package on top. It contained one quite ordinary and worthless lead soldier. The box held an entire regi ment of ordinary lead soldiers.* Mystified and vexed, Director Currelly popped the regiment back in its box, returned it to Sir Robert without thanks. Observers deduced the mystery's solution: the Royal Ontario Museum had swallowed whole a British newspaper story that the army Sir Robert was sending was the Charles Sandré army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fake Army | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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