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...still drinking when the police took him in. During his years in an English prison Leo lost the last of his holdings to an older brother and acquired instead a personal hatred of England. The rest of his life in a small town and in the city of Cork was spent in organizing spasmodic, futile revolts. His nephew, Johnny Hussey, who had risen in the world by becoming a policeman, sent him to prison again for trying to ship arms into the country. But before he died old Leo had the satisfaction of seeing Johnny's young son Dennis denounce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/9/1934 | See Source »

Armstrong Cork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Atlas & Earnings | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Jews in Berlin's ghetto were forced to act in Horst Wessel last August by Storm Troopers who gave them "stones" (made of cork), ordered them to stone Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Music by Hanfstaengl | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...large an allowance under the code but he will at least get the benefit of strict provisions against misrepresentations. The unhappy buyer of a "doped" car can go straight to the district code Administrator with his tale of a tampered speedometer, sawdust in the gears, ground cork in the differential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Second-Hand Code | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...omitted)(ooo omitted) Allegheny Steel ....$303 $8260 Crown Cork & Seal. 971 247 General Foods 9,578 10,339 American Rolling Mill 312D 1,821D Remington Rand ... null 1,301D Bendix Aviation .... 1,096 367D U. S. Steel 28,0740 54,542D General Outdoor Advertising QiQD 1,6970 National Steel 2,569 1,308 Coca-Cola 8,342 8,802 The Bureau of Railway Economics reported the net operating revenue of 149 Class 1 railroads for the first nine months up to $340,000,000 from $197,000,000 a year ago. Whereas most oil companies did not show nine-month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Indices v. Earnings | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

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