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Actually, A.P. Sloan is probably the most functional, frill-less piece of human machinery in the U.S. industry hierarchy. He is also close to being its top industrial statesman. Once an associate likened him to a bearing, "self-lubricating, smooth, eliminates friction and carries the load...
...carries the load of running G.M. with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...
...people should be given ample opportunity to rest and recuperate. . . . The heavy load on the shoulders of the farmers and workers should be reduced at once...
Even among Balkan politicians, who are much sought after by direct-actionists, Dr. Georgi Dimitroff, 43-year-old ex-Secretary General of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party, seems to bear a charmed life. Four years ago he escaped German arrest by leaving his country in a load of oranges shipped out by British diplomats. Four months ago he escaped Russian arrest, this time by falling inside the opened door of the U.S. political representative in Sofia, Maynard B. Barnes (TIME, June 11). Last week, still in the reassuring company of Mr. Barnes, Dimitroff and his wife emplaned from the capital, with...
...nothing to the Japanese. Under the 675-year dictatorship of the shoguns (Japan's military overlords), emperors were empty figureheads often cast aside, banished or assassinated at the shoguns' whim. "From the remote island to which he had been relegated, one managed to escape, hidden under a load of fish. Others had to sell autographs for a livelihood. The Emperor Tsuchi II lay unburied for six weeks until his son borrowed the money from Buddhist priests to pay for the funeral expenses...