Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: If the picture of President & Secretaries Mclntyre, Early, Roosevelt on p. 13 (TIME, Jan. 18) is not identical with that of four silk hats, President Roosevelt, Mr. Mclntyre, Mr. Early and James, appearing on p. 21 (LIFE, Jan. 18), then the two are from two cameramen huddled together so closely that the difference is barely noticeable...
...boom of 101 guns echoed over Naples one afternoon last week. At the gate of the Royal Palace gaily uniformed guards presented arms. The blare of bugles cut the afternoon air. At 3 o'clock, a dapper equerry clicked his heels before the Palace, tied blue and white silk ribbons to the main door. From thousands of loyal Italians thronging the streets of Naples went up a mighty roar. To the Princess of Piedmont, Crown Princess Marie-José, had just been born a nine-pound boy "with dark hair, dark eyes and a florid aspect...
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...
Wang the farmer now becomes the patrician head of the House of Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...
...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...