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...Learned from acrid Chancellor Snowden that in the last six months nobody has accepted his "invitation" to supply the Government with "evidence sustainable in law" that any Soviet produce is being produced by convict or forced labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...distress is rife and is touching the pocketbooks of Harvard men. Perhaps, with increasing unemployment and men out of work even in Wall Street the Somnolent Cambridge atmosphere may be acrid with the smoke of bullets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLY SMOKE | 11/12/1930 | See Source »

...Galloper" who tamed wild Irishmen, to scathing "F. E.," master of acrid but urbane debate in both Houses of Parliament, to Great Britain's youngest Lord Chancellor, to the great and frankly snobbish Earl of Birkenhead whose aristocracy was that of "first class brains," came last week a strangely gentle Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Birkenhead | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...seldom that his sermons received front-page space. Yet last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer front-paged the Sunday sermon of Rev. J. M. Russell, pastor of the Monroe Memorial United Presbyterian Church of Akron, Ohio. The reason: Mr. Russell's sermon was one of the most acrid attacks on the rubber industry yet heard, and many a Clevelander, especially Goodyear-controlling Mr. Eaton, has a stake in that industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tires Patched | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Volpone. Ben Jonson's acrid comedy of the Levantine who pretended illness in order to extract gifts from those who wished to be remembered in his will, has been a staple of the Theatre Guild both in Manhattan and on the road. The Guild now brings it back to Manhattan, excellently played by a cast including Earle Larimore as the servant Mosca who outfoxed his bedridden master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Revivals | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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