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...Japan's stormy petrels, Seigo Nakano was the stormiest. In his heart raged venomous hate for the U.S., Britain, Russia. On his tongue were words of violence and panacea which attracted the hungry and the malcontent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Hara-Kiri | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

Ruml will discuss his revolutionary new tax-collecting method, object of one of Washington's stormiest controversies. Head of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, and treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co., he is an acknowledged expert in economics and business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUML TO TALK ON FAMED NEW TAX PLAN HERE | 2/23/1943 | See Source »

...Candidates of 1940. No artist, no athlete, no scientist, only a man whose place was on the stage of world politics, could be Man of 1940-last and stormiest year of a stormy decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Man of the Year | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...Batt's indications were no mirage, they meant the end of one of the stormiest battles yet behind the scenes of the Defense Commission. Opposed for weeks were stand-pat steelmen, represented in the Commission by American Iron & Steel Institute Secretary Walter Tower, and expansion-minded New Deal staff economists, who want enough steel to handle defense and normal steel needs both. Mr. Tower has frequently boasted of the industry's readiness to handle any emergency without expanding. Republic Steel's Tom Girdler echoed him: "If ev erything in this country was in as good shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: End of a Battle? | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Signet Club) speakers are proposed by Curator Lyons, voted on by fellows. Most popular of a distinguished list of guests this year was Eleanor Roosevelt. So engrossed in conversation was Mrs. Roosevelt that President Conant had to whisper in her ear that her train left at midnight. Stormiest dinner was given for Walter Lippmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Postgraduate Journalists | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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