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Luis Falcini, curator of the Buenos Aires Municipal Fine Arts Museum, was dismissed at the same time because some years ago he painted for a trade union a picture showing a worker with an upraised arm and a clenched fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Purge of the Arts | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...game, a numerically superior Harvard team came up in the last half to tie a seemingly lost game, there to three. Hero of the day for Harvard was Bob Woodside, whose two goals made the tie possible after the British had pulled ahead by three to one in the fist half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOODSIDE'S TWO GOALS TIE RAF SOCCER SQUAD | 9/21/1943 | See Source »

...Convict Water C. Huff, 21, serving a year for reckless driving, testified: "I came here with two other boys and after Captain Clay took off my handcuffs ... he busted me in the mouth with his fist and my teeth are loose now. Big Jim kicked us and put two picks on us. Captain Clay . . . then took us back to the little house in front of the pigpen and beat me up. He made me bend over the bed and he let loose. ... I was so sore I had to lay on my stomach. . . . The beating was on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...will to use them. Those nations were Great Britain and France. European politicians came to believe that the League was no more than an alternate tool of the Franco-British balance of power-a belief that was ignobly confirmed when the Hoare-Laval pact, giving Mussolini a free fist in Ethiopia, put an effective end to the League's lone effort to apply not even military but economic force against an aggressor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREEDOM FROM ATTACK: International Police | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...dirty, swarming, vice-infested Hastings Street a Negro shot a white man. Ugly words were passed on streetcars and busses. Hoodlums of both races, part of the human flotsam tossed up by war, got into brawls and fist fights. Plainclothesmen and uniformed police nightly raided Negro nightclubs, legitimate and otherwise, frisking patrons for concealed weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Anniversary | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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