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When Chancellor Heinrich Bruening first used these almost dictatorial powers, Soldier-Diplomat von Papen "looked on fascinated." The former bombster dreamed of becoming chancellor and restoring the Junkers to power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Shouldn't Happen to a Papen | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...tearing the wings off the politicalboss's airplane); 2) rescued a pretty female reporter (by catching her in mid-air); 3) saved the life of a beautiful foreign princess (by sinking a submarine singlehanded) ; 4) foiled a plot on a king's life (by braining a bombster with a camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week Bombster Bush did it again. This time he rented Albert Hall (capacity 12,000), and launched a three-day Festival of Music for the People. Main feature: a massive pageant depicting the story of "the people in their struggle forward out of subjection." In it danced, acted, sang and marched 500 pageanteers from London's Labor choirs, 100 folk dancers from the village of Abbott's Bromley, dancers from London's Communist Unity Theatre, Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, and 100 English veterans of the Spanish Loyalist army. Its music was composed by a bombing squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bombster | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...year-old boss of the Patoot's family paper Popolo d'ltalia, none other than Vito Mussolini who was left behind when his father, Benito's only and beloved Brother Arnaldo went to Heaven. . . . The adolescent ace of the Blackface War, Paleface Bruno Mussolini, youngest Italian bombster, was only 17 when Pappa made war, is now going to fly by hops to California, then try to make it from San Francisco to Rome, nonstop. With him, just in case, will ride Major Attilio Biseo, personal pilot to Il Duce. . . . Pappa say no, no and NO the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: On the Corso | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...competent bombster and assassin in his youth, Joseph Stalin has provided Russia with the most thoroughly assassin-proof government it has ever had. Not since 1918 have Bolshevik leaders of any consequence been murdered, and Miss Dora Kaplan's shot at Nikolai Lenin in that year was not fatal. Last week the hearts of millions of White Russians leaped high. "It has begun!" they exclaimed. "At last Communists have begun to shoot their leaders in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Farewell, Dear Friend | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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