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The authors of the Logan Bill, backed by the American Bar Association, are opposed to the agency principle of government, and would like to see Congress regain all its former legislative power, and the courts their judicial power. Seeing little or no usefulness in agencies, they have backed away right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALPHABETS IN THE SOUP | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

After that Aretino began working the nobility. The crooked Marquis of Mantua, violent Giovanni della Bande Nere became patrons and friends. Then through miscalculating some smart moves he was nearly murdered, moved to Venice for safety. He spent the rest of his life there. Emperor Charles V and the Doge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Resurrection | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Last week in Boston, the 280-lb. Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Angel | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Last week a dark-haired man with crooked mouth and sombre eyes slouched glumly into a Manhattan courtroom. He was Earl Russell Browder, the nominal leader* of U. S. Communists, and he was in a fix.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Before a Fall | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

The Daily Worker would probably fire its movie reviewer if he panned this latest version of Victor Hugo's famous "Hunchback of Notre Dame," for it is more a tidy moral essay on the people versus the crooked nobles than it is a horror story. But the Daily Worker would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

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