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...statesmen, most of them proud of their foreign university degrees, call him a bumpkin and a clown. Perhaps no Chinese love him except the coarse, humble masses from which he sprang. Last week these chuckled as tall, mighty-bellied War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang returned with a broad, triumphal grin from his three-month military escapade in Chahar Province north of Peiping which nearly plunged Japan and China into fresh war (TIME, June...
...Seattle, Wash., with only the waist-swung dollar watch and gap-toothed grin missing, Deri Erickson marched with his goat in a children's pet parade, made spectators gasp at his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi...
This brindle-haired, gruff-voiced man with a plainsman's capacity for a broad grin and an equal capacity for downright anger at what he considers foul play, managed Coolidge's Minnesota campaign in 1924. He was the sort of honest man Coolidge appreciated and five years later, in the early days of booming 1929, that President named him to the Federal Trade Commission. Although a Republican he was elected chairman last January in time to execute Democrat Roosevelt's attack on bad security selling. He helped write the Securities Act, and today stands eager to enforce...
...week piloted his 45-ft. Amberjack II on the sportiest, saltiest vacation the country had ever watched its President take. He dressed in old flannel trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even the crustiest old Down Easterners had to admit that he was a crackerjack seaman under full sail...
...seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places in Holland, England, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway, it has lighted highways so brightly that automobiles can speed at 60 m.p.h. without headlights. European police are delighted with it, automobile clubs indorse it, insurance officials grin broadly at the thought of reduced risks from night accidents...