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Dates: during 1930-1939
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All this time a busy little old man in a derby hat was rushing officiously about. Craning their necks behind rows of police, onlookers whispered that it was "Monsieur de Paris," traditional name for France's executioner, otherwise Anatole Joseph Deibler, 76.* Immediately another closed van rattled into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Sarret | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

Soviet is a word meaning simply "group" and the Russian parliamentary edifice is a pyramid of groups, each of which elects members to represent it in a higher group. Since the Communist Party authoritatively pervades all the groups or Soviets, even the highest, Josef Stalin as Secretary of the Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Recognizable Russians | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

Last March Villiers sailed as second mate with Captain de Cloux on the Parma. two months behind the first of the fleet. Mate Villiers had served as seaman in two previous races. Members of the big crew of 32 were the Captain's daughter Marie Ann and one Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Grain Race | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

The Mind-Reader (Warner). Chandra Chandler (Warren William), alias Chandra the Great, Dr. Munro and the Great Divoni, starts as a fortune-teller in county fairs. He marries a smalltown girl (Constance Cummings), gives up his profession because she disapproves of it, resumes it after being a failure at selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

No less vehement was Rev. Dr. Clarence Edward Noble Macartney of Pittsburgh, leading Presbyterian conservative. To suggestions (mostly by liberals) that Assembly money could better be spent on good works at home, he replied with fine Scotch logic that the only legal way to omit the Assembly would be to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Radio of Power | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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