Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scant months the Davieses have been in Moscow (TIME, Feb. 1), the friendly U. S. Ambassador has made it a practice to tell Bolshevik bigwigs straight off that he has no apologies to make for Capitalism and wants to hear no arguments for Communism, adding that he likes a shooting match of questions about either the U. S. or the U. S. S. R. with the answers kept as factual as possible. The shooting started when Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengoltz gave a five-hour Russian lunch for Ambassador & Mrs. Davies at his magnificent dacha or country estate adjoining Dictator Stalin...
...this part of Russia comrades have been boasting for so many years about the boons of electricity under Communism as compared to its curses under Capitalism that they are ready primed to tell any visitor where he gets off. Manager Mirohnikov of the excellently functioning Dnepropetrovsk Aluminum Plant bustled up at once to the U. S. Ambassador and crowed: "In your country the Mellon interests are responsible for the restricted use of aluminum because they fix the price too high. Such under Socialism would not be tolerated...
...sort of chariot derby between three-horse Russian droshkies. Winding through these and other divertissements, which make it easily the most eventful blood-&-thunder spectacle of the current season, is Jules Verne's 61-year-old story of a courier sent by the Russian Tsar to tell the Grand Duke, commanding an army at Irkutsk, that reinforcements are on their way to help him put down a Tartar rebellion led by Scarface Ogareff (Akim Tamiroff). Courier Michael Strogoff (Anton Walbrook) is spotted by Ogareff spies as he leaves St. Petersburg. Highlight of his journey is the day he spends...
...father, rich old Senator George Hearst. To mark the anniversary, the first publishing property of the Hearst enterprises ran off a 134-page edition of 306,000 copies. One of its most striking features was a letter, written by "Will" Hearst, 24 and recently rusticated from Harvard, to tell his father what he would do if he had the Examiner to play with...
...with fancy paint costs $125. Buggymen sell to foreign government officials, who usually like them gaudy; to places like Bermuda and Mackinac where automobiles are prohibited; and to parts of the U. S. where roads are bad and people poor. Standard's president E. J. Knapp likes to tell of a sale in the South where a three-year-old Ford brought $12, a 30-year-old buggy...