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Wise heads both in London and Paris know that many Italian officers and upper-class soldiers can be and have been withdrawn from Spain. Most of them are replaced after three or four months' service, but the dumb thousands lurching in motor trucks and tramping muddy roads in Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Symbolic Recall | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Howard David Higgins of the Reformed Episcopal Church, which has 8,200 members in the U. S. The entire hierarchy of his church in North America did the consecrating: Bishop Frank V. C. Cloak of the Chicago Synod, Bishop Joseph Edgar Kearney of the "Missionary Jurisdiction" of South Carolina, Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Youngest Bishop | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Most votes for William Lemke, it is generally agreed, will be votes which would otherwise have gone to Franklin Roosevelt. What worried Democrats last week was the possibility that the loss of even a few thousand votes might lose whole states to Nominee Roosevelt, swing them to Nominee Landon. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Merger of Malcontents | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Fear of the outbreaks becoming a general strike, attended by violence and suffering, seems temporarily abated, but self-restraint is never a long-enduring phenomenon of such disruptions of economic and political life. It is, therefore, easy to understand why Premier Blum has promised everything to the discontented. He may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. BLUM AND THE "WORKERS" | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Peace came as a letdown for Smuts. For a while he was simply an embittered veteran. Then the Liberals came into office in England and gave back self-government to the Boers, only four years after the war ended. Smuts was struck all of a heap. "Has such a miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Boer | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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