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Abraham Lincoln, having been reinterred 16 times, had reason last week to turn once more in his grave. Just before his 122nd birthday last week there was published his 112th biography, Lincoln: The Man? by Poet Edgar Lee Masters. Unlike his Illinois neighbor Poet Carl Sandburg, whose Lincoln biography is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lincolnoclast | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

The Author. Like many a home-grown U. S. prophet, Upton Sinclair is not without honor in other countries. His books are well-known and admired by many a radical group in foreign lands; they have been published in 34 countries outside the U. S. Says he: "The thing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Socialist in Rome | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

The general was astounded. He had called at what he feared would be the death bed of his chief. Day before a young fanatic, one Tameo Sagoya, had put a bullet into the Prime Minister's abdomen, pierced the small intestine. In the cir cumstances it was remarkable that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Wounded Lion | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Red had won spectacularly, but twice as sensational was the win of Brown. In the last Reichstag there was a "joke party" of twelve deputies, headed by Austrian-born Herr Adolf Hitler, crony of General Erich von Ludendorv with whom he spilled Bavarian blood in 1923 trying to stage a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Red & Brown Winnings | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Directly in charge of Dry work under Enforcer-in-Chief Mitchell, was Assistant Attorney General Gustav Aaron Young-quist (successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Transfer | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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