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...series of dialogs. Except for two moments-the scene in which Stephen and his onetime girl embrace, and the finale in which Stephen and his wife decide to carry on together-the spectator finds himself wondering just how two more actors can be maneuvered in when the present pair dismiss themselves. Somehow, like Noah marshaling his animals in the Ark, the authors manage to turn the trick, but not always neatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...that it would require thousands and thousands of Federal agents to administer the new law and that the Democrats were feathering their political nest by putting all such extra employes outside the civil service. The bill's friends retorted that this was done to permit the President to dismiss the lot without notice and end operations overnight if his farm experiment proved a failure. Many a member flayed the measure as the worst ever, but announced his support of it on the theory that the Senate would probably revamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Runt Relief | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...free speech, public assembly and inviolability of the home have long been suppressed, here was more power in the Chancellery than even Bismarck dreamed of, but careful investigation showed that canny old Paul von Hindenburg still held two aces up his detachable cuffs: The President still has power to dismiss any or all members of the Cabinet including Handsome Adolf himself. He still remains Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, with sole power to proclaim martial law. The Reichswehr is not yet a Nazi organization. If told to turn Adolf Hitler out of office it could theoretically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler Enabled | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...with problems of human psychology, concentration in the field must command the serious attention of Freshmen. Its cultural value, while not as patent as that of more esoteric activities, is attested by the fact that many teachers of Economics had their beginnings in other subjects. While one might dismiss as naturally biased the declaration by a leading economist that it is the "greatest cultural study," the fact remains that just as religion was the dominating problem of the Middle Ages, so questions of Economics are paramount today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 3/17/1933 | See Source »

...Hill could get some satisfaction out of the fact that the U. S. Supreme Court last week ordered the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York to dismiss without prejudice a stockholder's suit to set aside American Tobacco's employe stock purchase plan, whereby President Hill and his directors got 32,370 shares of common B stock, listed at $112, for $25 a share. But so sharply did Justices Stone and Brandeis criticize the plan that disgruntled stockholders promptly began a new suit in New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Troubled Smoke | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

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