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Salesman of News-Week to its charter investors was an ambitious Englishman, Capt. Thomas J. C. Martyn, a onetime foreign news editor of TIME. Through his second wife, a Cheney (silk), and other connections, and using TIME's record as a sales argument, he was able to enlist the following sums from the follow-ing principals for original and salvage financing...
...President's second envoy to Bolshevik-land. It was presently announced that Ambassador Davies, instead of wearing full evening dress when presenting his credentials to Puppet-President Michael Kalinin (as do other members of the Moscow diplomatic corps), would wear with New Deal unostentation "simple morning clothes-silk hat, striped trousers and swallow-tailed coat" as worn by Mr. Roosevelt at his Inaugural (see p. 9). Getting at once into the peculiar atmosphere of Moscow, which was at its most ominous last week, Ambassador Davies went daily to the Old Bolsheviks Trial (see below), followed the accusations, testimony...
...TIME'S Jan. 4 issue you tell of the late great Arthur Brisbane sleeping outdoors anc covering his eyes with a black silk mask...
Through cheering crowds Victor Roosevelt drove to the Capitol to start his mopping up. At the side door of the House wing, he shed his silk topper, his dark overcoat and revealed himself in his new uniform, a handsome ash-grey cutaway with trousers to match. The White House secretariat-Son James, Stephen Early, Marvin Mclntyre-racked their toppers in a row on the trunk behind the Presidential tonneau. and the official party entered the Capitol...
...five floors had one large room. On the roof was a sleeping arrangement, for Brisbane argued that if outdoor sleeping was helpful to consumptives, it must also be good for people in normal health. When the morning sun waked him, he merely adjusted a lightproof mask of black silk, slept peacefully...