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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bethlehem. One hard-headed tycoon who talks (four times a year) is Eugene Grace, whom Charles Schwab brought up to be the thin-lipped king of Bethlehem. Last week Grace declared for the benefit of his stockholders their first dividend (50? a share, $1,591,992) since Christmas 1937. This good news was considerably bolstered by his announcement that second-quarter earnings ($3,822,927) were up a whopping 2.443% from the second quarter of 1938. Bethlehem's common stock greeted this by dropping half a point and the stock market as a whole by backing away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Steelspeakers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Warsaw for a four-day conference on "military coordination" went Britain's tallest, heaviest Army officer-Sir Edmund Ironside, Inspector General of the British Overseas Forces. His host was the tall, thin, handsome Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Polish Army. Weighing 252 pounds and standing six feet four inches, General Sir Edmund has been nicknamed "Tiny" by his men. More aptly, the Poles called him the "Iron General" and greeted him with cries of "Bravo Iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bravo Iron! | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Seldom seen in pre-war Spain, but even more conspicuous last week, were the thin, elegant features of Ramón Serrano Suñer, fastest-climbing of Europe's modern politicos. Now 37, a lawyer educated in Italy, Señor Serrano's pre-war claims to distinction were his service as a Catholic deputy in the Cortes, his marriage to handsome Señorita Polo, sister of Señora Franco. His war record included an escape from Madrid's Model Prison, a trip to Germany to be feted by Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Three Years | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Last week in Manhattan's Chinatown, eminent Chinese, art lovers, sympathizers gathered in Lichee Wan's Restaurant to pay respects to an aging and ailing little thin-bearded man with a quick smile, bright eyes and fleet gestures-Chang Shan-tse of Chungking. His mission: to raise money to buy medical supplies for beleaguered China. In a garret studio, from 6 a. m. until nightfall he could be found feverishly painting $$o-up duplicates of water colors whose originals had brought $1,500 in China. Their soft mauves, greens and umbers, their economically limned designs of rocky landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tiger Painter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...clever dodge of blaming any international scrape they got into in China on the military people on the spot. The U. S. has adopted the stalemate expedient of letting its military people on the spot take independent counteraction. Ever since the Chinese-Japanese War started Admiral Yarnell, tall, thin lowan, has had a free hand from Washington in dealing with emergencies. The Admiral has thus won several quarrels with the Japanese, and has probably saved U. S. citizens in China some of the humiliation and indignities that Britons have undergone. In answering so effectively Japan's ultimatum last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Ultimatum and Blockade | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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