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...Conquest into Cash? This high-powered reference to the Noble Redskin reduced most of Mussolini's white critics last week to a state of frustration especially notable in Basle, Switzerland as the heads of Europe's central banks met for their monthly session of August gossip at the World Bank...
...circulation in Italy [TIME, June 24], measures such as usually are necessary only toward the end of a war. If the Dictator has to do such things now, what will he have to do later?" Said another: "Suppose even that Italy conquers all Ethiopia, how can she turn this conquest into cash quickly enough to meet her bills...
...Elder Statesman Prince Saionji because he was just enough of a patriot to satisfy the fanatic Army & Navy, yet had 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...
...elderly doctor (Frank Morgan) who discovers that his young wife (Virginia Bruce) was really the subject of the nude portrait. As a substitute, they may derive amusement from scenes like the one in which "Poldi" Major breaks in on the duchess' petulant gardener to tell him about her conquest; or the one in which Frank Morgan furtively attempts domestic reconciliation...
Saltykov tired of his imperial conquest, but soon Catherine had another lover, Poniatowski. Husband Peter connived at this intrigue even more openly. When Poniatowski was recalled to his native Poland, Catherine solaced herself with a muscular Guards lieutenant named Orlov. But meantime she was making herself as popular as Peter, with his anti-Russian fads, was making himself disliked. When the old Empress finally died Catherine and Peter were at open enmity. A successful coup d'état upped Catherine to the imperial throne. Her lover's brother murdered the miserable Peter-without her knowledge or consent, says...