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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True it is that, except for the rabidly New Deal tabloid Times, Chicago has been fed a steady anti-New Deal diet by its press. Only morning alternative to the Tribune is William Randolph Hearst's Herald & Examiner; only full-sized evening alternative to Colonel Frank Knox's News (circulation: 394,000) is Hearst's American. But Publisher Knox, as he speaks through his paper, has been by no means so violent as Vice-Presidential Nominee Knox speaking from the stump. The News has generally front-paged a boondoggle story, exuded confidence in Republican victory, given Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Press | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...eats more spaghetti, prepared with copious melted butter and cheese, than Edda thinks good for his figure. He seldom downs a cocktail, which Italians consider fattening, takes a glass or two of wine at every meal. When Father-in-law Mussolini went on what amounted to a fruit diet, so did Son-in-law Ciano, but his gastronomic passion at present is for fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Five Points | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...first books on horses is displayed, printed in 1595. By its title it claims to instruct in how to "choose, ride, train, and diet both hunting and running horses." A book on hunting and riding. "The Sportsman at Home and Abroad," has on its titlepage an original handcolored drawing by Henry Alken, famous English illustrator of horses and hunting scenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

...does a superhuman job of Vagabonding. At nine he listens to Crane Brinton, Harvard 5, on "Rousseau." At ten to Professor Nolte, Sever 7, on "The Age of Enlightenment". At eleven to Professor Arthur J. Nock, Harvard 2, in History of Religions 1, on "Zoroaster". A well balanced metaphysical diet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/28/1936 | See Source »

...Imperial Japanese Government, acting upon a bill passed by the Japanese Diet, announced that next week it will establish 22 Thought Control Offices in such leading Japanese cities as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Sendai, Sapporo and Fukuoka, with Thought Control Substations in 15 other cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Thought Control | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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