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*Thermopylae, a Greek beach with a cliff on one side and the sea on the other, was held by Spartan King Leonidas' Army of 300 in 480 B. C. against Xerxes' large Persian forces. Valmy in Northeastern France, was held by French Revolutionary Armies in 1792 against the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: No Box Office | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Another possibility: the Germans were getting supplies from the Dominican Republic, whose dictator, General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina has been called pro-Nazi. It was reported last week, and quickly denied, that Dominican Coast Guard Cutter No. 3 had been sunk off Samana Peninsula "in an accidental collision with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Old Game | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

COLD STEAL-Alice Tilton-Norton ($2). Leonidas Witherall's new house near Boston is perfect except for a corpse in the garage. Not so mysterious but light-hearted and amusing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in August | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

A. M. A. members are Northerners, for Negro physicians are excluded from Southern county medical associations, hence from the parent A. M. A.* Both Northern and Southern Negro doctors are united in the Negro National Medical Association. Last May, when the A. M. A. held its annual convention in St...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leach's MacDonald | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

In Manhattan by special car arrived the entourage of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, former President of the Dominican Republic, now Commander in Chief of its army. Fresh from a round of receptions in Washington, the onetime second lieutenant in the U. S. Marines tucked in at the Waldorf-Astoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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