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...Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent in getting behind the wheel. He got there first by attaching himself to the fat, sly, greedy, frightened Florentine, Marie de Medici, widow of Henri IV. She reigned for her 15-year-old son, Louis XIII, whom she used to spank publicly to the delight of the tittering court. But at the very moment Richelieu got power, he lost it. Louis XIII decided to do a little spanking of his own, banished Mother Marie to the country, Richelieu to Avignon. The baffled statesman had to begin conspiring all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conquering Cardinal | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Since then many things have happened every day that also tickle me. Every time I see a friend I am invited to show the spank marks, in many Public Places. Corporations and individuals, mighty nice folks have been worried about me. And I have looked around for spank marks but I can only find old welts and busted places that have occured in the general course of my business when I have guessed wrong or moved too slow. A young boy called up from Oklahoma City-and wants to break in roughnecking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...made them realize as never before that the U. S. State Department and people had by no means decided to acquiesce to the New Order in Asia, even if their headlines had recently seemed to have forgotten Asia was there. The U. S. was patently in a mood to spank as well as slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...always reserved the sole right to spank its Latin-American neighbors. Since 1933 the U. S., anxious to avoid the stigma of dollar diplomacy, has spared the rod in the interests of President Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policy. Meanwhile, the Mexican Government has seized without compensation oil lands, mines, ranches and farms belonging to citizens of the U. S. and foreign countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Spoiled Neighbor | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...only Germany's No. 1 composer. As one of the two most eminent composers in the world today (the other is Finland's Jean Sibelius), he is Naziland's No. 1 cultural exhibit. Even though he is a bad boy the Third Reich is loath to spank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bad Boy | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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