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Even the dignified pretense that the representatives of His Majesty's Government are living in Ottawa on expense accounts ranging from $2.50 per day for a full delegate down to $1 for a secretary was gayly exploded by Montreal Gossip Colyumist Margaret Currie. "What a thing it is to be a statesman!" wrote she. "A little bird told me that the Premier was host to all the delegates, not only for their accommodation and meals, but for the special train itself which bore them from Quebec to Ottawa. Perhaps this is the first time Canada has ever had a Prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Little Bird Told Me. . . . | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...were disposed of at a total cost of $5,290.) Three years ago Publisher Macfadden told Editor & Publisher: "It will make a few hundred thousand next year." But it never did. The only feature which ever gave promise of building and holding circulation for the Graphic?Walter Winchell's gossip colyum?was bought away by the Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out Steps Tichenor | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

Bespectacled, statistic-loving Premier Molotov has been embarrassed lately by guarded criticism in the Moscow press of his beauteous blonde young wife's doings, still more embarrassed by Moscow gossip. Why, since the Soviet Union is again pinched by a food shortage (TIME, May 23), are powders, perfumes, rouges and lipsticks so important as to engage the energies of the Premier's wife? Why does not she, like the frumpy middle-aged spouse of Soviet President Kalinin, manage a collective farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Stars & Gas Masks | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Satsuma Empress, In the new Cabinet Baron Yamamoto, the Home Minister, is a Satsuma. In Japan it is an axiom that "The Home Ministry makes the election." Why did the Son of Heaven consent to a Satsuma in this key post? Court gossip had it last week that Emperor HirohitO' and his ancient adviser Prince Saionji, 83, had both been swayed by another adviser who is the Son of Heaven's close friend, Count Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal-a Satsuma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Divinity with Microscope | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...life. She is an illegitimate child born into a plain English family who cannot understand how such things can rightly be. Innocent as the day herself, Sally is farmed out as a maid-of-all-work in the Yorke family. Sally loves her employers, thinks them perfection until gossip below stairs and her own observations make it clear that they have troubles undreamed of by her. Mrs. Yorke lets her husband love her only for babies' sake; Mr. Yorke wants to love her for her own. The trouble thickens. Mr. Yorke takes to drink, then to infidelity, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maid | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

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