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...ears stick out! His Nazi doctrine is utter humbug. Non sensical!" Last week Communists were saying that should brilliant Karl Radek, the Walter Lippmann of the Kremlin, be shot there is no Red able to succeed him in giving wit and penetration to Stalin's stolid, blunt ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Journalist Jailed | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Princeton's freshmen two days before, President Dodds took the occasion to declare: "The people love liberty . . . but they put ham and cabbage first, If they can't get them under democracy, they will trans fer their affections and their spiritual val ues to other systems. The blunt fact is that our democracy must cleanse itself . . . if it is to fit itself to be an efficient instrument of social control." That, as it turned out, was just what practical President Eddy proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Eddy To Hobart | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...live to be 100 I'll never hear sweeter music than the chuckle of the sea past the Girl Pat's bows, the soft whistle of the wind in her rigging, and the slap-slap of the waves against her creaking timbers as she dug her blunt nose into deep water. ... At Tenerite ... an elderly native came sidling up to me. ... He started to praise his daughter and-well, although to me she was only some sort of a dark-skinned female out of Africa, my gorge rose and I socked him one and left him something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Girl Pat | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...rebuilt corpse was subsequently identified as Lillian White, an inmate of Letchworth. The identification was upheld by Justice Arthur S. Tompkins of the New York Supreme Court; and her murderer, Joseph Blunt, was subsequently caught in Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...North the local regime in Hopei and Chahar Provinces established by Chinese under Japanese auspices last week took for itself the kind of autonomy which in China matters most, autonomy in collecting and keeping in its treasury the customs revenues which would otherwise be sent to Nanking. In a blunt manifesto Hopei-Chahar assumed this prerogative amid local cheers, for the new Hopei-Chahar duties are only one-eighth the Nanking duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: British Gift | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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