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Chubby, jolly Dr. Funk, long a Nazi Party member, and once head of the Third Reich's Press Department, will keep his Economics Ministry which he took from Dr. Schacht in 1937. Specifically charged with maintaining the stability of wages and prices, he will now have the added and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Exit Schacht | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Only once in The Old Century does war overshadow Sassoon's mellow recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Relatively Idyllic | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Shortly afterward Albert Chaperau ceased to be amused. He was twice more indicted along with Comedian George Burns (sidekick of Gracie Allen) for smuggling $4,885 worth of diamond bracelets and a ring. To make matters worse, jolly George Burns admitted making payments to Chaperau, pleaded guilty to nine counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chaperau's Way | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

There are some 700 licensed jockeys in the U. S. Last week, coming down the homestretch of the 1938 horse-racing circuit, 28-year-old Johnny Longden of Calgary, Canada, and 24-year-old Johnny Adams of Tola, Kans. led the field in a neck & neck race for the jockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jockey Race | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

The soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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