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...City. ''Its very difficulties have helped to keep it free. . . . The solid foundation of Catholic truth upon which it is built holds it back from following the unthinking crowd. . . . True, it is not indefectible, but what it represents is indefectible. . . ." The convention number of the Rochester Catholic Courier added: "Competent observers have stated that it is because of ... restrictions [admonitions of the Holy See and directions of bishops] that the Catholic press is perhaps the freest press in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: VOICE | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...sword across a man's eyes and a sort of chariot derby between three-horse Russian droshkies. Winding through these and other divertissements, which make it easily the most eventful blood-&-thunder spectacle of the current season, is Jules Verne's 61-year-old story of a courier sent by the Russian Tsar to tell the Grand Duke, commanding an army at Irkutsk, that reinforcements are on their way to help him put down a Tartar rebellion led by Scarface Ogareff (Akim Tamiroff). Courier Michael Strogoff (Anton Walbrook) is spotted by Ogareff spies as he leaves St. Petersburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...fees would reach a good fat sum, perhaps $40,000, at any rate much more than could be made at law. So down among the bars where he sometimes caroused between bouts of terrific hard work, word was passed around that "Big Steve" was out for sheriff. The Buffalo Courier cried: "He is at the same time so true a gentleman, so generous, modest and lovable a man that we have never heard of anybody's envying him. . . . His very name is a host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Historic Relic | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, Louisville Courier-Journal, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lala Palooz | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...around and only some 30 miles away as the week opened, the facade of the "Spanish Republic" was noticeably crumbling. At Geneva last week the diplomatic representative of Premier Largo Caballero, "The Spanish Lenin," made shrill speeches about Democracy being at stake in Madrid, but uncensored dispatches brought by courier pictured the Capital as ruled in fact by proletarian Terror. Estimating that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons have been executed by Government firing squads in Madrid or simply butchered in their homes and on the streets by mobster adherents of Premier Largo Caballero, a courier dispatch from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crumbling Republic | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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