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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better than that of a committee. Our inference is that it has been, in fact, the very opposite of a dictatorship. It has been, as it still is, government by whole series of committees." They explain Stalin's prominence thus: Lenin's death left a fearful hole; "some new personality had to be produced for the hundred and sixty millions to revere." Trotsky was considered too dangerous, so Stalin was chosen, deliberately propagandized into the nation's hero. While they admit that Stalin's success has made him irremovable, they plainly infer that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U.S.S.R. | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Deal as the disillusioned Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey. For the New York Herald Tribune syndicate he drew a picture entitled "The New Deal Administration Welcomes Constructive Criticism," and below, "X marks the spot where the last critic tried it." The X was in a shell hole, around which lay a head, a body, a severed hand, two severed legs and, on a shattered tree, a fragment of shirt labelled "Gen. Hagood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Flippant Philosopher | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...under women's par. She won her first three matches, in each of which her gallery was by far the biggest on the course. She lost, in the final, to Lucille Robinson of Des Moines only when Miss Robinson sank a 6-ft. putt on the third extra hole. It was Patty's fourth major tournament of the winter. In the third, at Palm Beach last fortnight, she lost to "Maureen" in the final, after beating "Glenna" in the second round. The others, the Miami Biltmore Women's Championship and the Women's Champions' Tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Patty | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Henry B. Bigelow '01, professor of Zoology, will lecture on the work of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute tonight at 8 o'clock at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geographical Institute Lecture | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

...precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled the man out of the cab, tied a rope around his waist, lowered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mishaps in Massachusetts | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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