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...months of study are needed, culminating in an examination on a mock-up murder complete with dummy and clues. The training is shown together with a few scenes from the more famous kidnapping cases. The cold-blooded efficiency of the F.B.I. seems never to miss; this short ought to frighten offenders of Federal laws out of their wits

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

...Great Exile had, but the Soviet Government and its extremely obedient and vocal Russian Press gave no sign of having minded the following remarks by the Great Exile last week in Mexico city: "Soviet bureaucracy is sabotaging the Spanish Revolution in order not to frighten the French bourgeoisie! It does this first by preventing the proletariat in Spain from seizing power, secondly it does not give Spain the support it could give if Russia really intended to help the proletariat. Soviet bureaucracy is aiding Spain only just enough to save its face with the workers of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trotsky, Stalin & Cardenas | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Straits from Britain's Gibraltar and "within canonading range''. In London these rumors had galvanic effect. The nervous Duke of Windsor's nervous intimate friend, British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper, who has said in a public address that he considers it his duty to "frighten people out of their wits" with the dangers of War (TIME, June 22), promptly bolted from London over to Paris. There he conferred with burly, square-jawed French War Minister Edouard Daladier, an ambitious politician whose critics have for years implied that he wants to make himself France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Little World War | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...theatres, public works such as motor roads, reclamation of marsh lands, building of new cities, construction of transatlantic liners, excavations of noble Roman ruins, and colonization of Ethiopia are all positive achievements. The negative catcalls of Communists in the Daily Worker most certainly will not perturb Britain, nor frighten British investors in Glorious Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fascist Eagle & British Lion | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...peace." Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions." As such, the book is filled with material that is likely to frighten good pacifists out of their wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hair-Raiser | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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