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Rose of the Rio Grande (Monogram) is foamy, small-budget beer to tease tastes jaded by cinema bubbly. Its frank melodrama is based on the Mexican border legend of a rough-riding Robin Hood of the last century whose caballeros jubilantly bedevil the inept soldiery, pink villains neatly through the heart, are never too preoccupied to sing a rousing song or chuck a cantina girl jovially under the chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Meantime, the warring races continued to bedevil one another. In the preponderantly Arab city of Jaffa, Arabs set fire to a few Jewish shops. Thereupon the fire, backed by a strong wind, turned and burned a number of Arab homes. Jews from the Arab towns of Hebron, Acre and Beisan were evacuated to nearby Jewish communities. All-Jewish Tel Aviv was ringed with barbed wire to keep out bloodthirsty Arabs. In terrorist murders and police fire, the Jewish dead last week reached 18; the Arab, twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Bad for Business | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...well knew that the session before a national election is a prime opportunity for the Outs to bedevil the Ins. He may have remembered in June 1932, before adjournment, he himself was standing on the floor of the House broadcasting in the Congressional Record an attack on the keynoter of the Republican National Convention which met in Chicago to renominate Herbert Hoover. This year Republicans would like the same opportunity. Nearly three years ago, when the New Deal was new and unopposed, Representative Bankhead was already suffering attacks of acute indigestion in the cloakrooms. Now again, though the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Session, Old Scene | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...more than a decade University of Washington, sloping back from Seattle's lakes, has been the nation's prime example of the political meddling, jealousy and intrigue which bedevil most state universities. It came to the fore during the eleven-year administration (1915-26) of the late Henry Suzzalo. Able in politics as in pedagogy, he wangled generous grants from the Legislature, built up a maze of specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hugo, Gobsie & Beartrap | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...confronted with a second Bonus March on the capital. His method of handling it was in marked contrast to that of his predecessor. Opposing prepayment of the Bonus no less firmly than Mr. Hoover, he used the regular Army to befriend the bonuseers upon arrival instead of to bedevil them upon departure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Bonuseers into Camp | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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