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"We find on the one hand," reported the resolutions committee at the A. F. of L. convention in Denver last fortnight, "the dominating and fulminating Caesar of the C. I. O. marching his Roman legions to the White House with bludgeoning threats, while on the other hand we find the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Peace or Plot? | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Political observers reacted as sportsmen would if Yale's football coach, having reduced Harvard to the status of an early-season setup, should publicly advise the Crimson how to come back. Depending on how they assayed his advice, readers guessed: that Pressagent Michelson was having some sly fun with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Michelson to Republicans | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

If you are just back from Reno, the perfume propre is Tornade, another Revillon parfum for the skin. This wicked essence of sophistication is a cunning bouquet of precious wood oils, a jungle redolence imprisoned in an extract from the glands of sables. Apply it, not to your hanky or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ad of the Month | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

That the doors to the New Lecture Hall were locked and bolted when the first of the group arrived, has been laid to the cunning of Col. Charles R. Apted, who yesterday afternoon vigorously denied that the doors were locked with malice aforethought. According to his statement the doors are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1500 Students Rush to Birth-Control Lecture Only to Find It a Big Hoax | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

Franz Lehar is not only a Hungarian; he is a Rotarian. The best of this gifted sexagenarian's melodies-lyrically proclaim his Magyar background. The Lehar melodic line at its best is marvelously cunning, fresh, deceptive. It climbs like a lark to clear heights, then swoops down and off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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