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...started fairly quietly with a debate on the administration of justice in Prussia and the election of Hitlerite Hans Kerrl (who likes to refer to Adolf Hitler as "Germany's Jesus Christ") as President of the Diet. Suddenly up sprang Communist Wilhelm Pieck. Shaking his fist at the Fascist benches he screamed: "In your ranks there sit a huge number of murderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Br | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...bottom of his glass-enclosed bathing pool. Helen Lauer, his physiotherapist, clad like him in a bathing suit, helped him onto the table where he lay supine, partially submerged and buoyed up by a foot of water. Miss Lauer, 35, 5 ft. 5 in., hazel of eye, strong of fist, proceeded to massage one by one the 116 muscles in Governor Roosevelt's toes, feet, legs, thighs, counting 10 as she manipulated each. Then he sat up, swayed his heavy torso forwards and backwards. That was to keep his abdominal muscles in tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. at New Orleans | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Author of the House's measure was Thomas Alan Goldsborough, a Maryland Democrat from the rural Eastern shore. A lawyer by profession, his legislative hobby is banking. Placid and friendly at home, he is an energetic, fist-clenching, table-thumping speaker in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goldsborough Bill | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...Versailles and sat in the National Assembly with the Senate to elect the new President. Several Communist deputies arrived in bright blue overalls and work shirts. Two Left Centre deputies arrived quarreling; one twice slapped the other's face. A senator and a deputy began a furious fist fight, blundered into War Veteran Deputy Louis Sevestre who has only one leg, knocked him down. But leading Paris papers called the proceedings "among the quietest in years, out of respect and homage to M. Doumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New President | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

Amid shouts and hubbub fiery Laborite James Maxton was seen to threaten with his doubled fist equally fiery Conservative Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: No Fear! | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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