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A rough, crude, unbridled force, Huey Long is more than a windy showman of the Tom Heflin breed who bows to party control. He is persistent. He is quick-witted. He is unscrupulous. For a year he has been in open revolt against the Robinson-Glass-Harrison leadership of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Long Loud Long | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Month ago nimble-witted Finance Minister T. V. Soong announced that for the first time since China became a Republic her dumbbell finances were whirling in a balanced rhythm (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week popular demands that China spend millions to fight Japan were enough to drive Juggler Soong frantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nimble Soong | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Prince Mike Romanoff, alumnus of Princeton, Harvard, Oxford. Eaton, and several sister institutions, has disappointed his host of admirers. This lightning witted gent who rose from a New York orphanage and sundry reform schools to be lionized by social registries here and abroad has belied his career.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mike | 1/18/1933 | See Source »

A thousand people were in the building. All but a few hundred on the two lower floors were trapped by the flames. Screaming crowds rushed to the roof where the management had installed cages of live lions, monkeys, bears and a little shrine to Kwannon, Goddess of Mercy. Fortunately employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Shirokiya's Bargain Day | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

"Flowering Wilderness" is more than the sequel to "Maid-in-Waiting" it is a direct descendant of the great "Forsyte Saga," and the best thing Mr. Gals-worthy has witted since then. Like those books, it provokes such an interest in its characters that one cannot bear to put it...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: BOOKENDS | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

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