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...said: 'Unless the Government disarms the Fascist, Royalist and Nationalist organizations it will render inevitable the arming of the Left and extreme Left forces'. . . .Tomorrow it won't be an uprising, but a coup d'état. The forces which are being armed will descend together into the streets and the working class also will descend the same day. What can be predicted is not the issue of the struggle but the destruction of part of Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Raids and Inquiries | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Alumni? Then let a bowl, a basin, be passed about through all House Dining Rooms and let sweet charity flow into it that we may be the godlier. For if results are not forthcoming from this plea for succor we threaten--and it is no idle threat--to descend on masse on Fair Harvard and scourge the place with measles; and we have measles to spare. Woe therefore to the stiff-necked and unmerciful! We shall make Harvard the abomination of desolation, laid low with measles. Look you to it! James LeB. Boyle, II, '36 Thomas G. Ratcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Great Unwashed | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

Paramount and Fenway--"Beside". Warren William as a racketeering doctor gives a good performance until the drippy ending makes him descend to banal sentimentality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/23/1934 | See Source »

Also in last week's news was a famed oceanographer who plumbs the depths not with the eyes of instruments but with his own. The National Geographic Society announced it was setting aside funds which will enable Dr. William Beebe next July to try to descend in his bathysphere farther below the surface than the 2,200 ft. he achieved year and a half ago off Bermuda (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oceanograph | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...three per cent of the American people who pay all the income taxes to the Federal Government have a new worry. When will Uncle Sam descend on the taxpayer who may have thought he was making an longest but who now must prove its count that it was no fraudulent intent or go to jail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today in Washington | 3/14/1934 | See Source »

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