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Along the battlefront of the Tariff War last week ran the clatter of musketry as Senate soldiers tussled for the first time over actual rates. There was so much scampering back and forth between the lines that at times it was hard to tell on which side a Senator was really fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Rate Encounters | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...discern the simple story of an Irish footballer who went to war and returned paralyzed below the waist. He then had to roll himself about in a wheel chair while his erstwhile love cuddled another boy. In the meantime a profound and troublous scene has occurred. Avoiding the acute battlefront description of such books as All Quiet on the Western Front, such plays as Journey's End, Playwright O'Casey reveals a group of infantrymen encamped in a ruined apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Agent Jacques carried his story to Washington. Detroit's wet Congressman Clancy took up his charges, repeated them on the House floor. With a newspaper friend, Agent Jacques was taken to see Assistant Secretary Lowman, to report on battlefront conditions. Mr. Lowman, considerably angered, refused to see him, an nounced that he would have nothing to do with "a man of that type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War on Two Fronts | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Chang Tsung-chang. off to the Chinese battlefront, waves good bye to 20 wives and concubines, promising to come back victorious. Anemic Westerners can only admire Chang's courage and verve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nationalist Notes | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Brave Chinese. "Chang Tsung-chang, off to the Chinese battlefront, waves good-bye to 20 wives and concubines, promising to come back victorious. Anemic Westerners can only admire Chang's courage and verve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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