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This drew a final British retort from the most potent statesman in Prime Minister Baldwin's Cabinet, lean, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, frequently mentioned as a future Prime Minister. Speaking at Floors Castle in Scotland, Mr. Chamberlain asked for an even larger British Navy. "The dangerously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bullying & Bluffing | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Far from wishing to interfere, Bolivia's big-nosed, phlegmatic President José Luis Tejada Sorzano began behaving as if peace were as good as sealed, announced a "postwar reconstruction program'' to be featured by borrowing, if possible, $25,000,000. This will be spent tapping Bolivia's two-mile-high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA-PARAGUAY: Diplomats to the Rear | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

A brawny, curly-haired, snub-nosed young man who learned golf on a course built on the site of a Chinese graveyard near Tientsin, where his father was stationed as an Army officer, Lawson Little has given so much time to his game that at 25 he is still a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Slam | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

With the most serious foreign threat since an Argentine team won the tournament in 1931 thus neatly disposed of, the Open promptly became what it usually is, the climax of the summer's rivalry be tween young men who have been living on Long Island and vying with each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: $2.20 Polo | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Suddenly came the bombshell that Ethiopia's Emperor, like an incipient bankrupt who hastily transfers his assets, had handed oil concessions covering more than half his realm to a British Master of Foxhounds with swank London connections (see p. 23). Instantly the French Left Parties, hostile to Capitalism and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Odor of Oil | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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