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...called "President" (Mr. Lin Sen) and so-called "Premier" (Mr. Wang Ching-wei) are of scant importance, effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in-law Finance Minister Dr. Sung Tse-wen, better known as T. V. Soong. Locally the Chinese people's talent for "muddling through" provides law & order under the regional dictatorships of War Lords like famed Han Fu-chu of Shantung Province (TIME...
...foreword to the catalog Dr. Alfred Frankfurter expressed it more delicately: "The personal nature of a child and the artistic talent of a great actor, of a stupendous impersonator...
Though it lacked the glitter of great names, though partisan Republicans might call it a "small-time" aggregation of administrative talent and disgruntled Democrats might object, sectionally, the Roosevelt Cabinet seemed well received by the country. Most of its members know by long experience the business of government. It presaged good teamwork with a President who obviously would be its master...
...Washington as a lawyer, showing clients how to reduce their income taxes. Three years (1917-20) as Commissioner of Internal Revenue qualified him for this practice. Before that he was President Wilson's First Assistant Postmaster General. He arrived in Washington as a Congressional secretary, demonstrated a rare talent with figures, helped draft the Underwood Tariff Act (1913). Earlier in South Carolina, he had served in the State Legislature where, although an ardent Dry and devout Methodist, he offered legislation creating the notorious South Carolina liquor dispensary system. Never since has he ceased to talk of the failure...
...half so well known as the Very Reverend William Ralph Inge, "gloomy" Dean of St. Paul's, is the equally Reverend William Foxley Norris, onetime Dean of York, now Dean of Westminster. Twice in the past month Dean Norris, whose hobby is art and who has a nice talent in painting, emerged from the shadow of the Empire's shrine into the spotlight of world news. When a petition was started to give the late great John Galsworthy an Abbey burial Dean Norris was "forced regretfully to decline." Unofficial reason given was lack of space. Last week came...