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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Soviet spokesman at Montreux, was 60 years old last week. Because in Bolshevik theory a Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pie | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Arthur Neville, consigned to business, became prosperous and, like his father, mayor of the family's adopted city of Birmingham, where he tightened the hold of the Chamberlains on Birmingham elections. A far more glacial and forbidding character than his gentlemanly brother, Neville worked harder, became Chancellor of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Chamberlain Centennial | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

"It is not the size or character of these structures which gives this project its distinctive character. It is outstanding as a modern traffic artery through a great metropolis, planned to combine speed and safety as well as a form of recreation to the traveling public to an extent not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Triborough | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

The central character is Anthony Beavis, a dark-haired, full-lipped individual who looks like a meditative child. His particular artistic dislike is Proust, for he considers Proust's absorption with the past repellent and perverse. Anthony is living with resentful, brown-haired Helen Ledwidge in the south of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mill Slaves | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

As the story darts from 1933 to 1902, from 1902 to 1928, from the years of the War to the time of the British General Strike, a queer cast of characters takes shape. Anthony's insincere, foolish fa ther, his boyhood friends, Mark Staithes and Brian Foxe, his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mill Slaves | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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