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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never stoop to contradict the socialistic sons of bitches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Two-a-Night | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...government was a revolution against the democratic regime and not against the Tsarists or long-time economic abuses, Kerensky says. When Lenin returned to Russia a month after the first revolution he hailed it as the freest country in Europe, a statement which his subsequent actions were to contradict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerensky, Ex-Russian Leader, Puts Faith in Democracy Here | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

Quieter investigation by Correspondent Matthews cleared up many other points about this greatest battle of the war. Because Rightist planes won and kept control of the air throughout the battle, there had been no reports to contradict Franco's claims and for a week the press had been misled into believing that most of Teruel had been retaken by his troops. Actually, through the ten bloody days it lasted, the Rightist counteroffensive never touched Teruel itself, got no closer than four miles from the city. Evidence from other sources indicates that the three U. S. and British correspondents with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Surrender With Honor | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...according to his own office was never connected with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The "Goldwyn" in M-G-M is his original Goldwyn Pictures Corp. which merged with Metro and Mayer in 1924, two years after Sam Goldwyn himself had left it. Alva Johnston's account does not directly contradict this fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad U.S. faucets do not leak like the Chinese brand. "If I contradict myself here as a Chinese." shrugs Dr. Lin. "I am happy as a Chinese that I contradict myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: R3D2H3S2 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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