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...Last week, as much to make jobs as anything else, the Nazi high command prepared to foist golf on the German people. It ordered the exclusive clubs to lower their membership fee to two marks for adults, one mark for minors. It prepared to dot Germany with public courses, lower the cost of clubs and balls and announce a swarm of tournaments, beginning with a national amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golf by Decree | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...years. Munoz proved to be a very comfortable fort. Females, who made it home for Bolivia's heroes, numbered more than 150. There was even a cinema theatre and drinks were of the best. "Our soldiers are high-strung and enthusiastic over their victory," dot-dashed a Paraguayan military telegrapher. "They scarcely mention the truce in their conversations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA-PARAGUAY: Unmentioned Truce | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Madison came back home. As every reader of newspapers is by now aware. Franklin Roosevelt's Eleanor uses No. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion. Mrs. Roosevelt rides her horse Dot in Rock Creek Park for fun. To get herself places she has at her command airplanes, trains and a blue Buick convertible coupe. Since March 4 she has traveled incessantly up & down the nation, across it and back, visiting all manner of places and institutions. She has traversed its skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eleanor Everywhere | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...news, two items stand out above the rest. Down in the pleasant, palm-strewn island of Cuba, a native brand of hell burst out in full vigor as civil war recommenced on a sizeable scale. The fight centered about the several armories, police-station, and forts which dot the mainland; gunboats fought it out with land batteries, machine-guns with snipers, while General Batiste directed his troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/10/1933 | See Source »

...reminded to inquire why the dot and comma hounds in your editorial department overlooked TIME'S negligence in reporting the National Conference on Slum Clearance which was held in Cleveland, Thursday and Friday, July 6 and 7-the first convention of its kind- and which brought together 420 of the nation's foremost housing experts, city planners, and social workers, from 34 key cities of the country. Out here in the provinces, we thought this quite a TIME-worthy event, and our citizen committee which arranged the conference under the auspices of the city government was disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Domestics Under the Eagle | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

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