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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time as British Foreign Secretary, handsome young Anthony Eden brought the Empire's vast influence to bear squarely upon Danzig. In an abject climb-down, Senate President Arthur Greiser of this minute State agreed that its Government of native Danzig Nazis will abolish flagrant undemocratic abuses at the demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King Edward VIII's realm in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diplomatic Billingsgate | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...night last week 1,500 Washingtonians settled themselves in Constitution Hall to hear a performance of Lakmé by the National Opera Association. When nothing seemed to happen after half an hour, the audience began to clap, stomp, demand explanations. Another fruitless hour passed. Then a plump little woman with disheveled white hair appeared before the curtain, waved a piece of paper, cried: "This is the most terrible thing that has ever happened in the history of music. I have a check to pay the musicians but they refuse to take it. Won't some one please endorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lakme in Washington | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Jones's spring exhibition was filled with such bits of class consciousness as We Demand, Garbage Eaters, Demonstration. All summer he spent in the wheatfields near St. Louis, painting the hot sun on the yellow grain, the brawny bodies of the threshers. Eleven of these pictures were the main part of his show last week, again won Artist Jones loud applause from critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Workers & Wheatfields | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...haste and fury with which dentists began to use Hartman's Solution at the insistent demand of their patients made their early reports questionable. Many reported success in every case. Others scoffed. Others withheld judgment. Results of tests at the Murray and Leonie Guggenheim Dental Clinic reflected general experience. According to Director John Oppie McCall results on five children were "good," on three "fair," on two "not good." Some private patients made news by claiming that they got no relief whatever from Hartman's Solution. Two possible explanations: 1) compounds prepared by volume instead of weight; 2) incorrect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dental Pain Preventer | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Eccles publicly pronounced the market sound, declaring: "I think there is an element of safety and of strength in the fact that security purchases are being financed out of cash. . . . I am doubtful whether a runaway stock-market situation can proceed very far without being reflected in an increased demand for borrowed funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Margins | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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