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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oldster Litzmann began his new career by opening the Prussian State Diet for the Fascist Party last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 'Something More Important | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...permanent company, which plays every sort of piece, from the classics to the latest author's newest work. The runs are for a few nights only, and the crowds are attracted as much by variety as here they are by ballyhoo and reputation. The actors, because of the varied diet, and because an actor is not chosen by personality, and fitted to his part, but must really act, are better than Americans, who are untrained, and chosen because of some pleasant characteristic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROSTRUM | 12/6/1932 | See Source »

...between 11 and 12. I must keep in training, almost like an athlete. My exercise is obtained from walking. About two o'clock every afternoon I leave my office at the Capitol and walk briskly for a mile or more. As a result of careful watch over my diet and moderate exercise I keep myself inside the 168-pound limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lamest Duck | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Civilian Tokyo did indeed seethe with furtive protest against the Cabinet. Prominent members of the Diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tottering Yen | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...constrictors, electric eels and other fierce creatures. The captured women stand and weep. Their weeping is important. If no woman was captured in the raid, the victors appoint their own women as proxies to weep for the gory heads. Each man who took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Head-Hunting Amenities | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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