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...could never accustom myself," replied St. Gandhi according to a despatch from Karachi, "to uncomfortable trousers, a stiff shirt, white collar, or to tight shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gossamer | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Medical Missionaries. President Miller incidentally set up an idea of raising funds to despatch medical school professors as medical missionaries among small-town doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: College of Physicians | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...scientists announced a novel plan for cutting down the great packs of wolves in Siberia, making winter travel safer. At intervals throughout the wolf country will be hung microphones connected to a central telephone exchange. The "central" will listen for savage howls, locate the sending station, despatch rangers to despatch the howlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wolves | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...master at Bordeaux received an urgent request. He must find Marshal Pilsudski's state sword. It was thought to be in the car. The station master was formally authorized in the name of Marshal Pilsudski to break the seals, rummage the car, pack up the sword if found, and despatch it by the next boat to Madeira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: My Sword! My Sword! | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...contains no information about "prison camps." It does tell much concerning the extraordinary powers which the Soviet State unquestionably exercises over all Russian labor. For example the Soviet de cree of Oct. 9, 1930 ordered "immediate despatch of all unemployed to work and the cessation of unemployment benefits. . . . The unemployed are to be drafted not only for work in their own trades but to other work. . . . No excuse for refusal to work, with the exception of illness, sup ported by a medical certificate, should be considered." In other words martial-industrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Red Slaves | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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