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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grady had called the Dictator "Soviet Russia's most powerful and most unpopular citizen," had told a joke on him which she said was going the rounds of Moscow purely as a joke, not as a true story. The joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Joke | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...diagnostic error by distinguished Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Berlin Specialist in lung surgery, ast ounded the German Surgical Society last week. He tried to make a joke of the matter, which his colleagues helped out. They like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rent Heart | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

With the tourists jostling each other for his autograph, St. Gandhi refused them all with a toothy grin and a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Soul Force | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...lobbies of the House of Commons, last week, M. P.'s professed to take the New Party as a huge joke. But one prominent Labor statesman said (off the record) : "I think they are mistaken in pooh-poohing Mosley. They ought to watch him. He's a persistent little terrier. Smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Everyone was repeating to everyone else a very solemn joke: "Have you heard the news? Ramsay has resigned, and Mosley has sent for the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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