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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Aug. 31) of which English Professor Henry Noel Brailsford wrote that it was based on "three manifest impossibilities." Watching the trial, New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny cabled "This correspondent confesses that the psychology of these prisoners, ardently condemning themselves, baffles...
...that his talents as a trouble-maker for Capitalism are so great as to render the little he costs a bargain. Exile Trotsky expectorates in print upon Dictator Stalin on all occasions, and Stalin only recently staged in Moscow an amazing trial of alleged "Trotskyist conspirators" against himself (TIME, Aug. 31). Death sentences were passed and swiftly executed upon 16 of the accused, several of whom had long annoyed Stalin by timid carping at his policies, and this trial is still in retrospect so stirring that in Manhattan last week pinks and reds of various hues held a monster mass...
...Peace" Garages swore that the Harlem "God" paid him his weekly $30 in cash from a fat roll of bills. An Ulster county realtor said that Father Divine paid him $8,000 in bills from a satchel for a tract of the cult's "Promised Land" (TIME, Aug. 31), although title to the property was conveyed to a Divine disciple. One of 30 cashiers in Divine restaurants, a girl who had taken the name of "Humility Consolation," reported that all receipts were paid to Father Divine, that on many a night the clinking of coin could be heard...
Awarded. Posthumously, to Flyer Wiley Post, killed last year with Will Rogers in an airplane crash in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935); the medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, civil aviation's highest honor; in Tulsa, Okla. Oilman Frank Phillips of Bartlesville, Okla., backer of many Post flights, made the presentation to Widow Mae Post...
...When you are frightened," wrote doggy Albert Payson Terhune in Reader's Digest last summer (TIME, Aug. 17), "nature pumps an undue amount of adrenalin through your system. This throws off an odor . . . which human nostrils fail to detect. Dogs, however, hate it. It rouses some of them to rage; in others it inspires only contempt. Many an otherwise inoffensive dog will attack when that odor reaches...