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Good Offices. In the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations announcement was made that a fine new set of forts protected Italy's Alpine border, but scarcely was the Foreign Minister back in Berlin before Nazi officials began to taunt newsmen with hints of impending "big doings." A Rumanian Army mission mysteriously turned up in Berlin, and reports came out that Adolf Hitler had offered to lend his "good offices" in persuading Russia and Hungary to be nice-not to invade King Carol Il's domain. For these good offices, the Führer "hoped" that Rumania would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMATIC FRONT: Brenner Pass Parley | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Answering Miss Sheridan's taunt that while she earns $100,000 a year by her oomph, the average Harvard graduate makes less than $5,000 Bowie said. "We wonder by what criterion Miss Sheridan claims success for herself. If she earns $100,000 a year, it is further proof of public gullibility rather than of Miss Sheridan's success as an actress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Sheridan Sharpshoots at Lampy; Calls Harvard Humor Sheet Sad Rag | 3/6/1940 | See Source »

Objectives. Extraordinary fact about the Garner Rebellion is that its leader does not for one minute expect to win its Economy objective; at least, not at this session of Congress. John Garner, after 36 years in Congress, well knows that the President's taunt in his last annual message was a safe one, when he ironically asked whether Congress would like to economize on WPA relief, PWA projects, pensions or payrolls. More bitterly John Garner, life-long preacher and practitioner of thrift, feels that Economy is impossible so long as "that man is in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

What can you expect when a hockey team is managed by a baseball umpire? Such was the prevailing taunt among U. S. sport fans when the Chicago Black Hawks, managed by Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, wound up the regular season four weeks ago with only 14 victories in 48 games. Ending in third place in their division of the National Hockey League. Bill Stewart's team just qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs, but few insiders gave, them an outside chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off-Season Hero | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...nearly two years previous police had suspected him and he had turned over to others the reckless venture he had begun. In four years 171 issues were distributed (some a week late) and only the last was openly issued without fear of death. Victor Jourdain had made good his taunt: "We defy our persecutors ever to silence us. Truth will cry louder than their lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Underground | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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