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...Master, fly for your life!" shrilled a good and faithful servant last week at Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, Yale 1910, Phi Beta Kappa. "I shall remain at my post and attend to my duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Minister Mobbed | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

Frequently J. R. M. has an air journey from London to his Scotch home at Lossiemouth and return?a round trip of over 850 miles made with zip &zing in a straight-streaking Royal Air Force plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: J.R.M. | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Badges worn by a smalltown delegation of realtors on their way to their state convention were lettered: WE ZOOM FOR ZENITH. And a banner proclaimed: ZENITH THE ZIP CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Babbitt, World Figure | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Robert Szold, 40, becomes Chairman of the Administrative Committee, and so the actual head of U. S. Zionism. A brilliant Manhattan lawyer, he was (1914-15) Assistant Attorney-General of Porto Rico, assistant (1915-18) to Solicitor General John William Davis. Mrs. Szold (Zip S. Falk of Savannah) is a member of Bryn Mawr's summer school administrative committee, is President of Hadassah women s Zionist organization. The Szolds live with their three young daughters at Pelham, New York residential suburb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zionist Chiefs | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...when newscolumns of the London Times or any other newspaper will be "flashed with a zip" into the U. S. or any other part of the world, is a day for which Owen D. Young, internationally-minded Board Chairman of General Electric Co., is waiting hopefully. He has been talking about the possibility ever since 1923. Last week came some fulfillment. Mr. Young's oldest son, Charles, works in the General Electric Research Laboratories at Schenectady under famed Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson. He has invented a new type automatic carbon recorder for use in conjunction with Dr. Alexanderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Young Plan | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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