Word: quiteness
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...exalt the Japanese official whose official responsibility was stained with the blood of Premier Inukai, it was necessary to oust last week the ''Conqueror of Manchuria," taciturn Gen eral Shigeru Honjo (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Orders are orders. Conqueror Honjo packed up on short notice and silently quit Mukden from which he has directed the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo...
...long-shanked German burgher with thinning blond hair, blue eyes red-rimmed by fatigue, lounged in Montreal's Mount Royal Hotel one evening last week, toying dully with a glass of beer. He wished the newsmen ranged about him would quit trying to make him a hero. He wished they would not refer to his arrival that day by flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would...
...body of super-gold-diggers, who, by some magic wand, are able to conjure money out of the well-lined but carefully guarded pockets of the rich tax dodgers. But tax collecting isn't our business. If [the officials] can't do it, then they should quit and let some one else...
...about time that you folks quit talking about your families at home and how you'd run the Government if you got the chance and take your seats. Let's get this convention started. The Lord can't place his blessing on you while you are running around...
...were almost none which cost more than $300,000; none, like Trader Horn, which cost $1,000,000 or more. All producers cut office salaries; most producers tried to cut the salaries of employes under contract. George Arliss and Richard Barthelmess reduced their own salaries. James Cagney last week quit Hollywood because his pay was not increased (see p. 26). Also last week Ina Claire retired from the cinema to return to the stage. Her reason: "I didn't have my say. I took the movies too seriously...