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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often in their attempts to exonerate themselves they defame the character of others. A few, not intimately connected with the struggle, merely smash about at random with the pure joy of the iconoclast. Such a man is Prince von Bulow. In his recently published memoirs he violently attacks a man upon no greater provocation than that he told the truth. In the admission of Bethmann Hollweg that the German invasion of Belgium was a "breach of international law" Bulow finds a stunning tactical error. This may be true, but the Prince goes on to say that Bethmann should have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE | 5/12/1931 | See Source »

Because grim, humorless Senator William Henry ("Mac") McMaster, insurgent Republican up for reelection, loves the Hoover Administration no more than does lean-faced, witty Governor William John Bulow, his Democratic senatorial opponent, South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Great Expectorations | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...opponent was George Jonathan Danforth, whose major appeal was that he was a "Hoover Republican." In last week's voting South Dakota Republicans went anti-Hoover by 13,000 votes, renominated Senator McMaster. In the November election his Democratic opponent for the Senate will be William John Bulow, twice Governor of South Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

Slowly, tediously is passing Cosima Wagner, once the high-handed daughter of Composer Franz Liszt, once the wife of Composer Hans von Bulow. It was while married to von Bulow that she met Richard Wagner, himself married to an exactress, Minna Planer. Minna had shared Wagner's poverty, put up with his adulteries, including the Mathilde Wesendonck affair which supposedly inspired Tristan und Isolde. But Wagner left Minna to live with Cosima, 25 years his junior. She bore him three children-before he married her, took her to live at the Villa Wahnfried provided at Bayreuth by Mad King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Backtalk to Bayreuth | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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