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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angry because Russia has sent not a single Red Army bomber to aid them, 17 newly organized Socialist and Communist battalions about to leave for the front last week paused in Madrid to adopt this startling resolution: "Stalin has deserted to the Fascist camp! He is trying to sabotage the Spanish workers as in the past he wrecked the chances of Chinese, Austrian and German proletarians. Down with Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 'Doing Wonders | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most of 500 people who had gathered outside, singling out for special greeting a small boy in a cowboy suit. At a tourist camp on Des Moines' outskirts the caravan picked up six more carloads of newshawks and greeters, plus a motor-cycle police escort. Even though he kept in the back seat of his closed car, citizens along Des Moines streets knew that Alf Landon had arrived. The Republican nominee answered their cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strange Interlude | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...defending Irun the proletarian militia supporting the Government, which had been deserted by most of its Army, carefully mined the terrain over which it was thought Generalissimo Franco's forces must advance. This trap was betrayed to the White forces by their sympathizers in the Government camp fortnight ago, and last week they were able to avoid it and get down to straight fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: I run's Fall | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

What happens in the woods and rivers during the journey, in the fort during the siege, and in the Huron camp after the fort has fallen, is a complicated triangular contest for life & death between three groups, representing three irreconcilable loyalties. Major Duncan Heyward (Henry Wilcoxon) and Colonel Munro are trying to beat the French; Magua (Bruce Cabot), renegade Huron scout, is trying to get himself a paleface squaw; Hawkeye (Randolph Scott), third-party Colonial, is trying to keep Heyward's Redcoat notions of wood-warfare from destroying all of them. Randolph Scott walks away with the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Last of the Mohicans | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

After two months in Manhattan, the transparent woman will go to the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, then to 100 U. S. cities where the public may see her free of charge. Eventually Mr. Camp will present her to a medical college or museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Museum Piece | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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