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...Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester, N. Y. and New York City, reprinting old prose and poetry on which the copyright had run out. About that time he was also touring the U. S. as X. La Motte Sage, giving exhibitions of hypnotism. This led to The Philosophy of Personal Influence, distributed by mail from Rochester, which offered courses in hypnotism, and earned him & associates $1,500,000 before postal inspectors, suspecting fraud, forced the "New York Institute of Science" to quit. Another Rochester enterprise called the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From Sedalia | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

Green at his job of Finance Minister is plump, owlish Dr. H. H. Kung. Last week he buckled to the task of trying to balance China's budget with a sternness remindful of his great ancestor, China's uncompromising sage Confucius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Balance or Bust | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

However, the rate of interest varies with the mathematical formula used. The elementary arithmetical way used by the Russell Sage Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...Finance Minister and was to be known favorably in every chancellery in the world as T. V. Soong. Thus the tentacles of a single family linked China's late, sainted First President and her living Conqueror, and her greatest Finance Minister and the 75th descendant of her foremost sage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Promptly Chinese bonds tobogganed and alarm grew so general that troops had to be thrown around the home of Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang and the entire government quarter of Nanking. As Dr. Soong's successor Generalissimo Chiang picked the famed 75th lineal descendant of China's great sage Confucius, plump and placid Dr. H, H. Kung who smokes every day some 15 Havana cigars especially banded "Dr. H. H. Kung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Soong Out | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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