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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tighten up the eastern buffer for the Rome-Berlin axis, Hitler's Colonel General Goring proceeded from Rome last fortnight to Bled, a resort in Yugoslavia. There he talked Nazi business with elegant Prince-Regent Paul who already has an understanding with Italy. Hungary, to the north of Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria to the east, are already in the Italian bag. Rumania is next on the list for conversion by Missionary Mussolini. Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Axis Forging | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

During the reign of her first son, sickly Frangois II, she waited and watched; at his death she declared herself Regent for her second surviving son, 10-year-old Charles IX. Now she found that her family affairs were the parlous state of the nation. Bled nearly white by protracted wars, griped by religious dissension, rumbling with revolt, France was apparently tottering toward dissolution. "With all its normal resources mortgaged [the government] was reduced to a point at which it functioned for the sole benefit of the international financiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother in Politics | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...have bled so sore of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Collected Wit | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...sexual impotence, but threatened to vindicate his virility through the public courts. A onetime Irish Nationalist, he later served a term as sheriff, brooded over his neglect by the English aristocracy, became so agitated when finally given an audience in 1930 with the Prince of Wales that his nose bled violently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Reported in the U. S. last week was a new method of fattening pigs, developed and practiced in Russia. U. S. S. R. scientists discovered that drawing blood from pigs makes them fat. In experiments conducted by the Voronezh Meat Combine, 44 pigs were bled periodically and in amounts according to body weight. Thirty-two control pigs were given identical food, shelter and treatment, but no bleeding. After seven weeks the bled pigs had gained an average of 3 lb. more than the others, 30 of them were fat enough to be classed as lard pigs. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blood & Fat | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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