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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepted the Free State [equivalent to 'dominion status'] as an alternative to the renewal of war." In Dublin just as Finance Minister Sean Macentee was about to promulgate the tariffs authorized by the Dail last week "he collapsed in his home from strain and was ordered to bed for several days by his doctor" while his undersecretaries did the promulgating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Civil Tariff War | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Kaoru desires Agemaki, but she wants no man. When he tries to consummate his love, she substitutes her sister in the bed. Shocked. Kaoru leaves Kozeri untouched, begins to see that he has been unfaithful to Prince Hachi's trust. He determines to befriend the girls by marrying Kozeri off to his noble friend Niou. The gallant Niou succeeds in winning her, takes her off to court. But soon, for court reasons, he has to reduce her to concubinage. With her tragic disappointment the book ends. Though Niou "vowed to cherish her in this life and all lives to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cozy Higgledy-Piggledy | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...they raised their rates. In a small side yard outside his office he places a swivel chair. Patients stand in line waiting their turn to sit in front of him. He twists their feet, cracks the joints, collects $1, calls "Next!" Cripples hobbling about Williamsburg testify that they were bed-ridden until Healer Locke treated their feet. A Syrian fruit dealer with fallen arches told a newshawk: "For 14 years I can't get up in the morn ing and dress myself. Nothing but agony and yelling 'Yih! Yih! Yih!' Now, by gees, I can stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ontario Healer | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

Still wracked by a terrible headache Scot MacDonald was unable to write or dictate his final speech as Chairman of the Lausanne Conference. At the last moment he rose from bed, signed for Great Britain and declared ex tempore, "Our agreements must have response elsewhere. [They] must be placed within a world framework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lausanne Peace on Earth | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy, surrounded by wolf dogs and olive trees. There she and her friends go about in shorts, blouse and sandals; at night she retires up a ladder into a bunk-bed. Voluminous, witty, her many books are full of sophisticated sweetmeats. Among them: Debatable Ground, The Matriarch, A Deputy Was a King, The Room, Modesta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why Girls Leave Delft | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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