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...Over. the radio Dr. Robert Ley, brutal tosspot chief of the Nazi Labor Front, screamed: "Blue-blooded swine, lunatics, idiots, criminals, murderers, reactionaries...
...shooting a rocket more than two miles up does not shake their faith. They have learned something of what they are up against and have turned their studies to practical engineering details. Some of the problems are clearly posed in a new book (Rockets; Viking; $3.50) by Willy Ley, onetime colleague of German Professor Hermann Oberth, reported inventor of the robot bomb (TIME, July...
...Labor Minister Robert Ley promised German workers a grandiose housing program. In 1944, bombed-out workers were getting: a one-room house, 8 feet high from floor to roof peak, 12 by 18 feet of floor space. A curtain separated sleeping space from combined kitchen, living room. A privy hung on an outside wall. Families with more than five children were allowed two houses, two privies...
Ubico's famous Ley de Probidad (Law of Honesty) requires officials to register their property on taking office, explain each new acquisition. It has undoubtedly enforced a kind of terrified probity among underlings, but it has one flaw: in practice, it does not apply to Ubico. On becoming President, he declared himself worth $89,000. Now he owns 75,000 acres, is the largest individual landholder in Guatemala. Much of his property is valuable coffee and sugar land. He lists his acquisitions under the Ley de Probidad at ludicrous valuations. No one dares to challenge his figures...
...Mask of Dimitrios (Warners). When Cornelius Latimer Ley den (Peter Lorre), a writer of detective thrillers, first saw Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott), Dimitrios lay murdered on a slab in the Istanbul morgue (see cut). Scenting a story, Leyden decided to case Dimitrios' history...