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...Quite different from Ras Desta Demtu was Haile Selassie's other son-in-law, bug-eyed little Haile Selassie Gugsa. Ruler of the eastern part of Tigre Province, he is a direct descendant of that King John of Ethiopia still venerated as a saint by the Coptic Church. His great-uncle, John IV, was a sworn enemy of fierce-whiskered old Emperor Menelik who later defeated the Italians at Aduwa. Ras Gugsa's father kept up the family feud against Menelik and his grandnephew, Ethiopia's present Emperor, was on the best of terms with the Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Between Rounds | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...enough common sense to make Japanese bankers & businessmen feel that they would not be crushed by utterly ruinous taxes to pay Japan's bills for the impractical, grandiose conquest of too much of China (TIME, July 16, 1934). Once in office Premier Okada yielded to the exhibitionist bug which bites so many Japanese. He let himself be photographed with the crazy old camera and the prim old garden plants which are his hobbies (see cut). He also posed while a dentist filled one of his teeth, again while a barber clipped his almost bald head, and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: He's the Top! | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...There have been rumors in the cloak rooms that F. D. is going to 'Renovate' my good friend Jack Garner, to middle-aisle it later with the chinch bug of Chicago [Secretary of the Interior Ickes]. There is nothing to this rumor, my friends, because the alimony would be too high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guests | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...license be revoked. Miss Puddifoot was vindicated, her license renewed. But most London newspapers covering the hearing went to press with only the racy testimony of the complainants. Alice Puddifoot sued eight of the papers for libel. U. S. editors, reading the results of the trial last week, were bug-eyed with amazement at the manner in which British courts hold the British Press to strict accountability in the handling of late news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Puddifoot & Tidmarsh | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...Lord's vineyard"), "pioneers" (those who have dropped all other work except that of Jehovah), and "publishers" (those who do Jehovah's work along with their own). Last Sunday, remnants, Jonadabs, pioneers and publishers, to say nothing of the thousands of plain Bible Students, listened bug-eyed in Washington Auditorium to a speech by Judge Rutherford broadcast and rebroadcast to the ends of the earth by radio, wire and wireless at a cost claimed to be $200,000. They applauded lustily when Judge Rutherford referred to the Roman Catholic Church as a "foreign foe" whose head had ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jehovah's Witness | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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