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...prominent Frenchmen and Englishmen accused at the Red Trial in Moscow of trying to overthrow the Soviet State (see above) only the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Privy Councillor of His Majesty George V, had admitted the charge up to last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cold, Reptilian Blood | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...have never agreed. At times John Chapman, impresario of U. S. six-day racing, promoter of races in Newark, Boston, Chicago, Providence, has been suspected of arranging an appeal to whatever foreign element is largest in the town where the race was being held. But recent races won by Frenchmen Letourner & Guinbretiere in Pole-filled Chicago have weakened such suspicion. In one way undoubtedly Tsar Chapman can shape his races-he teams the riders. Anyone who objects to being teamed the way he wants has no way of protesting, since Chapman controls the business. He rode races himself till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ride to Nowhere | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...Frenchmen have as nice an appreciation of British mentality as Andre Maurois. The few do not include Maurice Dekobra. His story of how a woman wrecked a Damon-&-Pythias friendship between two English officers is as flashily improbable as an operetta, but just as agreeable if you are in the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French British | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Officials pointed out that to win the distinction of common military burial among Frenchmen who fell in the War one must, according to law, have died between Aug. 2, 1914 and Oct. 24. 1919. whereas martial Marshal Petain is still alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Puzzle | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...novel They Had to See Paris. The few moments of talent in the entire production, aside from those supplied by Mr. Sale, occur when Lois Deppe and his Negro jubilee singers appear. Hello Paris cannot be favorably compared to another musicomedy based on the same idea called Fifty Million Frenchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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