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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini's growing Roman Empire last week grew a very little more. On Good Friday it absorbed the very little Balkan Kingdom of Albania. Only that and nothing more. Il Duce's coup was neither more nor less cynical and coldblooded than those of Adolf Hitler. But added to all that has taken place in recent months, this small plus quantity of aggression all but upset the status quo in Europe. The brink of war, already almost worn out with Europe's trembling, was trembled on once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: MADMEN AND FOOLS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...idea grew. No more would he have to worry about the red-head from Smith. They'd take care of her down at Washington. Perhaps red-heads weren't anthropologically compatible with brunettes like Vag. Washington would know! No more worry about that little Radcliffe wench he'd met in Fine Arts class, either. A Senate Investigation Committee would probably submit a report showing how many Radcliffe-married Harvard men had thrown their wives out of windows in the last sixteen and a half years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois went to Dublin, got a job as a waiter, married an Irish girl named Bridget Elizabeth Dowling, had a son, two years later deserted wife and child to go back to Germany. Willie grew up to be a good-looking lad with a slight brogue and not much luck. His worst luck, he said last week, was his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler v. Hitler | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Alois, was a source of great shame to the Führer: he had three wives* and died a drunkard. Furthermore, Father Alois was the illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother's name, and not until he was 40 years old did he get permission from the authorities to use his patronymic (which he transmuted to Hitler). Had that permission not been granted, Nazis would last week have raised their arms to the speaker at Wilhelmshaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler v. Hitler | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Author grew up in the Kentucky tobacco country described in Night Rider. Lanky, redheaded, softspoken, Robert ("Red") Penn Warren, 34, has written a biography of John Brown, a volume of verse (Thirty-Six Poems), a number of short stories, is an editor of The Southern Review, best of current U. S. literary quarterlies. Night Rider is his first novel. A literary gamut-runner, who works day & night, he is now writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tobacco War | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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