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Frosty Mr. Neville Chamberlain, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer, arrived at the Treasury one morning last week with his striped trousers soaked to the hips, the tail of his morning coat dripping, water squelching from his shoes. Nobody asked any questions, discretion being a hallmark of British civil servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ducks & Sanctions | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Poppy (Paramount), in which W. C. Fields played on the stage in 1923 and the silent screen in 1925, is still an almost ideal vehicle for its bulb-nosed star. As Professor Eustace McGargle, broken down carnival spieler accompanied by his docile & devoted ward (Rochelle Hudson), he wanders into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 22, 1936 | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

In 1798 Naples was ruled by Maria Carolina, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria, sister of Marie Antoinette who had died on the guillotine only five years before. Carolina's husband, King Ferdinand, was a lazy, ineffectual, long-nosed barbarian whose concept of statesmanship was simply to keep out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheean & Sin | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Also found in Ernest's home was correspondence to Virgil Harry Effinger of Lima, Ohio. The, newshawks found, is a ponderous, big-nosed salesman with a foghorn voice who quotes extensively from the Bible, addresses everyone as "Brother." Seated in his basement office, which contains a plaster statuet of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mumbo Jumbo | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Institutions which buy bonds with the idea of holding them to maturity would not suffer from lower prices. The suckers would be those who bought at high levels and who decided to sell during a national boom, when interest rates are generally high, bond prices low. Investment bankers are thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bonds | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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