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Admitting it to be very difficult to guess whether there will be a war in Europe in the near future, he said, "The answer primarily depends on the action of the League of Nations with regard to the Italic-Ethiopian war. If the League places effective sanctions on Mussolini, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senator Key Pittman Characterizes Europe as an Armed Camp Full of Dangerous Fear and Hatred | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

Black Barber. Last week brought the feast day of a humble Peruvian who was beatified and declared Blessed in 1837. He was Martin de Porres (1579-1639). a mulatto barber whose father was a Spanish nobleman and whose mother was a Negro. A Dominican lay brother, Blessed Martin was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Causes | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Bonfils himself long regaled the nation's press with his front page italic editorials, invariably headed in mammoth red type "So The People May Know," always referring to other newsprints as "foreign owned," uniformly hectic in tone and quick in results. Such an editorial blocked the construction of the Denver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/18/1933 | See Source »

In a recent issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Raphael Demos, Lecturer on Philosophy at that haven of intellect, discusses "Some Aspects of a Liberal Education." Since he is striving after clarification rather than novelty, his maxims, isolated in italic type, have a familiar ring. "The aim of a liberal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Through Wit | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

On the recital program which Pianist José Iturbi played in Manhattan last week a composer with the prosaic name of Bennett kept company with Haydn, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt. Haydn and Schumann provided meaty sonatas for impish Iturbi to play in his neat, polished style. Chopin and Brahms showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orchestrator on His Own | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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