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...adjectives available to TIME industrious is the most inept in describing Alton Cook, radio editor of the New York World-Telegram. I know because he shared my apartment for many years and he is the laziest man who ever left a bed unmade and dishes in the sink from Friday to Friday, the day of the slavey's weekly visitation...
...punish them for insubordination, was overruled by the General Staff. No democrat, but an officer who had been close to the Tsar, he was in a ticklish position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia and Mannerheim started for home. Stories differ as to how he got there. One version says he wore his dress uniform and commandeered a train. Another that he disguised himself...
Wang Ching-wei, prospective head of the "all-the-People" puppet Government of China, a Japanese tool with combined Japanese Army-Government approval freshly stamped on his forehead, sent a wordy telegram to the Generalissimo. He proposed discussions "with a view toward securing nationwide peace on a basis of honor and justice and to facilitate the solution of such problems as the total withdrawal of Japanese troops from China. ... I am sending this message from my inner heart." Terms of the pact: Chinese recognition of Manchukuo; North China and Mongolia to be a "special zone for defense and economic development...
Last week, not in Bengal but in Edinburgh, Sir John was under fire again. He rose to speak at a city corporation luncheon. As he warned his hearers that the war had really not yet begun, he was handed a telegram: URGENT. WOMEN IN EDINBURGH WANT PEACE. Sir John cleared his throat, went on to say that Germany would be a cruel enemy. Another telegram arrived: URGENT. WOMEN IN EDINBURGH WANT PEACE. Sir John took a sip of water, and said in a firm voice that there must be no letdown in defensive precautions. Then came another telegram, identical. They...
...Ingersoll's plans, it will carry no advertising for at least two years but will run, as news, a digest of advertisements carried on other Manhattan papers. Managing editor of the paper will be burly, apoplectic George Harry Lyon, onetime city editor of the New York World-Telegram (1929-33), editor of the Buffalo Times until it folded last July. Editor of his own paper will be Ralph McAllister Ingersoll...