Word: ende
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this good story. Emma Zessarskaya plays a peasant woman who has a love affair with an Austrian prisoner working in Russian fields. As long as the conflict remains a private one between her independent ideas and the standards of her neighbors, the picture is worthwhile, believable. Before it ends the Austrian, a practical, unimaginative fellow up to that time, is inspired to join the Red Army, is killed in what he believes is a war-to-end-war. Best shot: the peasants getting in the wheat...
Last week Austrian businessmen seemed to have accomplished what the Austrian government and the Austrian press have been unable to do: put an end to the imminent threats of civil war between Austria's two pugnacious private armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Aug. 19, et seq.). Fortnight ago when Heimwehr-Schutzbund feeling was at its tensest, members of the Association of Austrian Industrialists marched to the office of Chancellor Streeruwitz to point out that rioting between the two groups was damaging Austria's credit abroad, driving money-spending tourists from the country, ruining Austrian prosperity...
...tall, blustering, hearty man walked into the Bulletin building and announced that he was the new managing editor. Chewing the end of an unlighted cigar, he called into his filthy, paper-littered office all the staff, invited them to put their feet on his desk, talked over with them the prevailing situation...
...situation was worth conversation. As rotten as San Francisco's politics were San Francisco's turn-of-the-century newspapers. To gain an end editors stopped at nothing. A typical incident: at 1 p. m. one day the city editor of William Randolph Hearst's morning Examiner told one of his newssnatchers that R. A. Crothers, owner of the Bulletin, had been attacked as he was emerging from a restaurant. Rushing to the Bulletin, the Examiner reporter learned that Owner Crothers was still in the restaurant, enjoying a good meal, good health. The newsgatherer departed. A few minutes later...
Peaceful infiltration was a proper term for the appearance of those yellow signs?infiltration into territory peculiarly sa. cred to Standard Oil Co. of New York Socony's declaration of war last week seemed to end the peaceful period...