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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Part of the Bukharin heresy consisted in doubting that Dictator Josef Stalin can put through on time his 33-billion-dollar Pyatiletka ("Five Year Plan for Economic Development") (TIME, June 18, 1928, et seq.}. Last week Pravda blared: "The five year plan! . . . We will put it through in three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bukharin Falls | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Even Dictator Primo de Rivera took the story seriously. The King was on a hunting party in Novalera, and Alba was with him. Dictator Primo de Rivera has not forgotten that Alfonso XIII was ostensibly on a motor trip when he summoned General Primo de Rivera to supreme power. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Gay Grandee | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Dowagers with noses for good blood relish the royal whiff in Alba's surname of Stuart Fitz-James. England's witty James II, while Duke of York, amused himself with Arabella Churchill, created their son Duke of Berwick.? A son of Berwick acquired by marriage and heritage the Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Gay Grandee | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Pencil Man | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

In Hailar, first important town occupied by the Russians last week, correspondents reported 12,000 Chinese casualties, lines of demoralized troops fleeing for the interior, looting as they went. In Dalai Nor several hundred terrified coal miners took refuge at the bottom of a shaft before the Soviet advance. Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Manchuria in the Vise | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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