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...visit Adolf Hitler. Last week routine diplomatic procedure to get the best deal Belgium could obtain as quietly as possible climaxed when, a handsome scrap of paper was handed by the German Foreign Minister, portly, grey-mustached Diplomat-of-the-Old-School Baron Constantin von Neurath in Berlin to sleek, smart Belgian Ambassador Viscount Jacques Davignon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Kingly Statecraft | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...world's biggest consumers of onions and there are more Jews in New York City than anywhere else in the world. Therefore Manhattan is the world's onion capital. There in a slick red and white office with a deep onion aroma, at 40 Harrison St., works sleek, well-fed Benjamin Balish, 41, who bears the proud title of U. S. "Onion King." Last week Ben Balish, after years of distinguished partnerships, completed arrangements for going into business solely for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Kingdom of Smells | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...whom the factory was named, Soviet Dictator Stalin has been anything but pleased by such results as Old Bolshevik Dybets has been able to achieve at the Stalin Plant in Moscow. This makes not stubby little 4-cylinder sedans for small-shots of the Communist Party but huge, sleek 8-cylinder cars for bigshots. According to the Plan, the Stalin Plant ought to turn out 24 limousines for bigshots per day, is turning out only six. Its motor truck division is doing pretty well, producing 205 heavy-duty trucks per day (the plan calls for 225), but doughty Old Bolshevik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Old Bolshevik & Big-Shots | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Sleek, medium-sized Marcel Rochas, a conventional French brunet, is grandson of a Burgundian shepherd and son of an Avignon artist. He was born in Paris in 1902, and presently set out to be a lawyer. He readily explains how his Gallic temperament led him to become a dressmaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Simple and Complicated | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...around Clarksburg, completely equipped, immaculately clean throughout. His 105 cows supply a large part of the milk for Clarksburg's 30,000 people. Last week it was no novelty to Dairyman Poth to see that one of his Holsteins, named Alta Clover, was about to calve. Patting her sleek sides, he guessed that she might even have twins. He penned her up for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pieter Poth's Calves | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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