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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Which is to advise that the bamboo shoots not only started coming up. but that within a year or so the whole neighborhood was endangered by this very prolific plant. So bad did it begin to spread that we had to devise a very elaborate system of trenches around the area to keep it in bounds. Even that is not 100% efficient, and it just struck me if we could get ahold of that panda thing our problem might be solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...begin, "Viewed Without Alarm" does not devote every page to interviews with Nazi bigwigs or Communist bureaucrats; nor does it attempt to count the number of guns in the Italian navy or the execution decrees in Stalin's desk drawer. It is a series of highly poignant snapshots of life on the Continent: conversations with young Russians, glimpses of a tavern in southern England, military maneuvers at Bad Nauheim. From these extremely natural sources uncovered through casual travel and occasional chatting Mr. Millis has distilled a convincing analysis of the various national points of view...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/17/1937 | See Source »

...been running for two years in Berlin an amazing personal suite of offices which was known as Das Büo Ribbentrop. He then reputedly gave orders to Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath. It was said that von Ribbentrop in London would at last have to begin taking the Berlin orders of von Neurath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ambassador No. 1 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...leave the corrupt court and marry her. He guesses that Rudolph was approached by Hungarian separatists at this critical time and accepted a proposal that he split off Vienna from Budapest and rule at least one half of the Kingdom decently. When his revolt starts and the guns begin to crack, however, Rudolph realizes that all governments are alike, that rulers must kill to rule and that every state is run by an inner ring for profit. On top of this sudden conversion to political atheism, Rudolph loses faith in Mary and there is nothing left but despair. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Outcast (Paramount). Though acquitted of murdering a woman who died of an overdose of sedative, Dr. Jones (Warren William) is disgraced, forced to retire to a small town where his name is unknown and where he can begin life anew with the help of old Lawyer Abbott (Lewis Stone). But Margaret Stevens (Karen Morley), sister-in-law of the dead woman, follows Dr. Jones, bent on revenge. She falls in love with him instead, is about to depart when her meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Outcast | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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