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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey was on trial for his political life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Safety Play | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Usually dour and uncommunicative, the Colonel leads a quiet life in Warsaw, lives in new quarters adjoining the Foreign Office, dines about once a week at the swanky Europejski Café, is a steady drinker. The lovely Mme Beck entertains diplomats once monthly - on the 17th. Both Colonel and Mme Beck were married once before, both were divorced. Because they are susceptible to bronchitis, they usually spend several weeks annually on the sunny French Riviera. Last week the Becks and the Cianos were weekending on a gay hunting party in Bialowieza, Europe's largest forest. The Colonel is known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Guardian | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Early in new Poland's life most of the Germans who formerly lived in the Corridor were determinedly eased out and Poles eased in. The Corridor thus became one of the most Polish parts of the country and Germany was robbed of any issue of "self-determination of peoples" there. Last autumn, when Germany rounded up 20,000 Polish Jews and sent them on their way back to Poland, tough and oligarchic Poland retaliated overnight by rounding up a few thousand Germans. Nazi Germany promptly "mediated" the differences. Not only does Poland run its show at home with brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Guardian | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Ribbing reporters asked whether the Führer had paid off in stage money, the Nazis' frozen marks. "Not on your life," came back Miss Daniels. "I danced for real money-$1,000 with all expenses. And that plane trip was expensive too, particularly since I never go anywhere without Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuhrer and Flexes | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Paramount, he decided not to sue, has since received no credit line, no money. The picture itself is likely to aggravate Mr. Paul's indignation. Cinemaddicts with imagination might find that he and his 80-year-old mother are rudely caricatured, along with other celebrities of Manhattan night life, including its fat hostess, Elsa Maxwell (now under contract to a rival company, Twentieth Century-Fox). Columnist Beebe, however, appears in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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