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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ On tiny Easter Island, isolated eastern outpost of the Polynesians, a French navy gunboat deposited a hopeful group of investigators headed by Professor Alfred Metraux of Switzerland. Ever since it was first inspected by Europeans on Easter Day, 1722, the island has baffled scientists because of its wooden tablets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

¶ When Herbert Hoover, who went home only once in four years, was President, his aids worried much because he could not present himself in the role of a human being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Divine Purposes | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

That tabulation was published in booklet form by Collier's Weekly primarily as self-advertising. Unlike most pieces of magazine promotion, it had little to say about Collier's, devoted itself almost exclusively to simple charts of Congressional votes, arranged by states, on 22 prime measures ranging from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Collier's & Congress | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Major Steffen was a South African who came from Luxemburg. With a crate of pigeons strapped to him he bailed out from an airplane over Luxemburg one black night early in 1918. His mission was to discover whether the Germans were concentrating troops in the Grand Duchy for the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chief of Spies | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

On his Oroville hillside last fortnight Death came, as it must to all men, to Brother Isaiah, 90. Authorities did not discover it until last week. Squatted around his corpse, praying without cease, his 40 "Immortals" waited his resurrection. Authorities looked at the body, decided it had better be buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Immortality at Oroville | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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