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Thousands of Muscovites tramped to Moscow's railway station fortnight ago to welcome a friend of Lenin, a prime voice of British Socialism. The train pulled in; a band struck up "The Internationale." The Muscovites roared: "Hail Bernard Shaw!" Troops swung into protecting lines down which Mr. Shaw marched, accompanied by Lady Astor and a group of other British notables including her meek husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Distinguished Visitors | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxer, driving his automobile near Brookline, Mass., stopped at a hail of distress near Chestnut Hill reservoir. From an automobile partly submerged in the water he pulled one Mrs. Henry Robbins and one Joseph E. McMorrow who had been teaching the woman to drive when she lost control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...borrowing" money from his boss's funds. There is still a long way to go before this gangling 19-year-old becomes the ponderous, dewlapped author of An American Tragedy, the principal pachyderm of U. S. letters, unrebuked slapper of a Nobel Prizeman (TIME, March 30). Dreiserians will hail Dawn for its candor, its shouldering, uncompromising lengthiness; antis will raise their eyebrows for the same reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adolescent Pachyderm* | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Adams. Alcohol has had no president since Russell R. Brown resigned last January, a fact which adds to Mr. Adams' duties. But he always appears cool, extremely neat, does not look his 50 years. At Yale he was voted "most likely to succeed" by classmates who now also hail as successes Editor Ogden Mills Reid of the Herald Tribune, Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell of Yale college, Charles Simonton McCain, chairman board of directors Chase National Bank. Classmates remember Alcoholman Adams as "Toots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alcohol Storm | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...Article 82 of the Treaty of Versailles, but this ground is unsound in view of the fact that both countries retain their sovereighty and separate political entity. However, many Germans and Austrians, remembering how the Prussian customs union helped to unite Germany politically into the German Empire, now hail this alliance as the first step toward a political union in the future; but such an "Anschluss" would need the consent of the League of Nations, which France and her satellites would almost certainly block...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fay Says Versailles Treaty is Not Violated by Proposed Austro-German Customs Union--Expects Opposition to Arise | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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