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...Sax Rohmer, creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, arrived aboard the Berengaria to find a suitable demagog for Dr. Fu to utilize in setting up a U. S. dictatorship. Answered cautious British Author Rohmer to newshawks' queries: "What demagog? Ah, that I don't know yet.. I'm going down to Washington to get to know your demagogs before I pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 10, 1935 | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...stages of physical exhaustion. Blood tests are systematically taken, and the blood analyzed to find out the amount of lactic acid, presence of which is the chief cause of fatigue. Test-tubes, beakers, flasks, burners, and numerous scientific devices make this experimental room vaguely reminiscent of a Sax Rohmer novel or the mid-year nightmares of Chem A students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Fatigue Laboratory, Working at Boulder Dam, Preserved Lives by Study of Heat Effects | 11/8/1934 | See Source »

...winter with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference" of the Harvard man, but he would get goddam sick and tired of hearing about the nifty third sax in Cab Casa Loma's orchestra as set forth by the Tiger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

Since the days of the Armistice the French have employed a consistently anti-German policy with all the suavity and relentless hatred of the best characters of Mr. Sax Rohmer's thrillers. In the Treaty of Versailles the forces of the Tri-color marched rough-shod over the prostrate enemy, saddling her with fascinating but utterly fantastic reparations, sinking her fleet and permanently crippling her army, and stripping her of her colonies. Not content with that, an army of occupation was placed in the Ruhr to force the payment of the national debt. As late as 1931 the old spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAZI BABY | 3/8/1933 | See Source »

...MASK OF FU MANCHU?Sax Rohmer?Crime Club ($2). The sinister,, superfiend himself, rejuvenated, pursues and wins the symbols of power, wipes the eye of Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar-Warrior | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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