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...crack Italian liner Conte di Savoia neared Naples, bearing roly-poly Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff from his triumph in Washington, the Italian Press burst with significant unanimity into a "tune" evidently called by Benito Mussolini. From the toe of the Italian boot to its strap among the Alps, Italians read that "Japanese dumping has become a new Oriental peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Western World v. Japan | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

News again last week was the broad-shouldered Judas of the Nazi Party, strap ping Gregor Strasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hormone Judas | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

Wclwitschia mirabilis, a curious turnip-like southwest African gymnosperm, has two strap-shaped leaves, i ft. wide or more, 10 ft. long before they begin to fray at the ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Elsewhere in this column is reprinted a letter from Dean Hanford, explaining the stand which the Student Council and the administration have taken with regard to subway rioting. The threat of punitive measures in this instance is unfortunately reminiscent of that shiny strap behind the bathroom door, but there are apparently still those who have yet to outgrow the urge to carve their initials on the furniture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUBWAY RIOTING | 12/15/1932 | See Source »

Miss Gibson climbed over the back of the pilot's seat while the instructor eased down into it. In doing so she was whirled against the cabin door, which flew open. Her foot caught in a safety strap, saved her. Pilot Copeland pulled the plane safely out of the spin about 100 ft. above the chimney tops-so low that 700 persons telephoned a crash alarm to police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Girl v. Tomcat | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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