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...able to change a jot or tittle of Lieutenant Massie's story. The officer told how he learned of his own actions : "Mrs. Fortescue said I stood there like a bump on a log. Later they put me in a chair. Jones. . . said I acted like a damn fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Horror, Rumor, Trigger | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...occasion the productive Captain was sent out into the middle of a river while his friends ferried $5.000 ashore from a Chinese gunboat. Then the Captain was jerked back and the gunboat did not dare fire for fear of killing him. Most recent note read: "You can't fool me. If you want to see Baker back I must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Kidnapping Kidnappers | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...visions, the desires that fool man out of his limits lead Poet Jeffers' tragic heroes & heroines into dark and terrifying ways. "Tamar," "The Tower Beyond Tragedy," ''The Women at Point Sur" all tell incestuous tales. "Roan Stallion" tells of a woman's love for a horse. Though critics, with few exceptions, have extolled the splendor and intensity of Poet Jeffers' works, some women think that he spoils his poems with such outrageous themes. Even his wife complained. "Robin," said she after he had finished "Roan Stallion," "when will you quit forbidden themes?" Robin answered with an enigmatic smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowed Marrow | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...protect trade-unionism from the anti-trust law. Strikes were still broken by Federal injunctions charging interstate conspiracies and monopolies. Labor leaders were still jailed without hearings for contempt. The "yellow-dog" contract spread and throve. Bitterly disappointed, union labor demanded that Congress do its job over again, enact fool-proof legislation through which hostile employers could not weave their way to the Federal courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Yellow Dog's End | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...fallen king can still fall, Don Alfonso XIII slipped definitely lower last week. One of the richest men and the most powerful monarchist in Spain, sad, grizzled old Count de Romanones, not only broke with his oldtime King but called him in effect a fool for flooding Spain with smuggled copies of a secret manifesto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: This is Comic! | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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