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May I suggest that TIME gives to physical characteristics an emphasis entirely out of proportion to their importance. It matters not at all that Capone is sleek and fat, that Chiang is wasp-waisted and shrill-voiced, and that Hearst is big-nosed. These persons' importance is in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Most glorious chapter of U. S. shipping history was the one written by the clipperships, fleetest commercial vessels ever whipped over the seas by the winds. Homeport for the majority of clippers was Baltimore. Last week as a late afternoon sun was sending its slanting rays over Chesapeake Bay a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Gangplank | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

The only objection leveled against the Hoover plan was that among its beneficiaries would be the top-hatted gentlemen who earn their daily bread in the fields of international finance. Quick to take this line of attack were the Hearstpapers whose big-nosed publisher, predicting that Herbert Hoover could be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exquisite Sensation | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

"Ender bids for Dictatorship!" His attempt to form a Cabinet promptly failed. So did other attempts by other Austrian statesmen last week. Even bald, beak-nosed, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, boss of the powerful Christian Socialist party, failed after trying until 2:30 a. m. to form a Cabinet.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: New Cabinet | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

A middle-aged German photographer named Otto Hillig and a youthful Danish farmer-turned-aviator named Holger Hoiriss flew in a Bellanca last week from New York to St. John, N. B.?and the 1931 season of transatlantic flying was officially opened. They settled down to await another break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Season Opened | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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