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Stanchest of Fingard backers became the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk and Berkshire, daughter of the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Also stanch is Lieut.-General Sir Harold Ben Fawcus.K.C.B.,C.B..C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.B., D.P.H.. Director- General of the British Red Cross, one-time Director-General of the Army Medical Services. These and others just as influential got King George V's ear, got him to order the Duke-Fingard Treatment investigated officially. Whatever its merits or demerits, now decided Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood's men, the Treatment did not require Mr. Fingard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fingard's Fix | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

While the spirited young Spanish people continued last week to exterminate each other , the Nanking Government of the venerable Chinese people commenced a bribery experiment noble in motive. That stanch Methodist, Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, turned his other cheek toward Mongol and Manchukuoan forces which have been invading Suiyuan, the strategic Chinese province north of the Great Wall. To those invaders who would transfer their allegiance to China, he publicly offered the following bribes, described with cultivated euphemism as "rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Noble Experiment | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...elect Huxman served on Kansas' State Tax Commission under onetime Governor Harry H. Woodring. Acting Secretary of War Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering, who still boss the Kansas Democracy from Washington, picked him for this year's race, which he ran as a stanch New Dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Governors | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Meantime Democrats were in uproar. They begged Republican Senator Norris, a stanch New Dealer who campaigned for Smith in 1928, for Roosevelt in 1932, to accept their nomination. When he refused, State Chairman James C. Quigley confidently filed for the nomination, announced that after winning it he would withdraw any time Senator Norris asked him to. Dazed and dejected were Democratic regulars when they counted their primary votes, discovered that a political cuckoo named Terry Carpenter had thrust himself into their nest with the combined support of Townsendites, Coughlinites, Share-Our-Wealthers and Germans grateful for a speech he once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEBRASKA: Sheep and Goat | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...often and so fortunately occurred in English history, a Scotsman, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow, was making good last week in one of the Empire's greatest jobs, that of Viceroy & Governor General of India. This tall, strongly-built and stanch lowlander arrived at the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Partnership & Co-Operation | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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