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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the State. At one blow the act will deprive the Catholic Church of ownership of Spanish art treasures valued at more than $500,000,000; ownership of Seville Cathedral, where Discoverer Christopher Columbus prayed; ownership of El Escorial, the frowning monastery where Spain's officially "Catholic Sovereigns" lie buried; and, generally, of ownership of all churches, church lands and property. On the other hand the Spanish Republic, like the French Republic, will grant to the Catholic Church both use and administration of much of the "separated property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Church from State | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...last January. It uses a simpler technique than recent pictures in the same vein (Once in a Lifetime, The Phantom President) to attain hilarious absurdity. It simply allows the behavior of its characters, who are presented in straightforward fashion, to reach a logical extreme. Good shot: McGloin using a "lie detector" on a speakeasy proprietor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 24, 1932 | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...been greatly modified by the manner in which he conducted the Walker hearings. . . . What impresses me most about [his] western speeches is the quality of judgment they display. He has talked as concretely as any candidate I know of and yet he has driven very few pegs into (lie ground that he will have to pull out later with his teeth. ... I shall vote cheerfully for Governor Roosevelt. That this means voting also for Mr. Garner does not add to my pleasure, but I can endure it when I think of Mr. Curtis. . . . Should Mr. Hoover be elected there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...thinking of only one thing-of being fed and fattened; reduced, therefore, to a pure and simple vegetable life." Democracy. "Democratic regimes can be defined as those in which, from time to time, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign. . . . Fascism rejects in democracy the absurd, conventional lie of political equality." Bismarck. Seemingly II Duce finds the touchstone of Fascist policy in "Bismarck, who never knew where the house of the Religion of Liberty was and of what prophets it made use." Stressing that Germans grew to be a world great people under Prince Bismarck's policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bismarck v. Vegetables | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...Crimson's last warming-up game, for such it is generally conceded to be, it behooves the football enthusiast to do a little looking ahead toward the five real battles which lie between Harvard's present clean slate and the possibility of an undefeated season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/15/1932 | See Source »

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