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There was a young man out of Higginsville, Mo. some 30 years ago who was willing to try anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Arrest of a Hero | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

In the stuffy chamber of Germany's Supreme Court last week a dullwitted, loose-lipped Dutch youth with wild hair and shabby clothes sat laughing and laughing. There he was, Marinus van der Lubbe, propped up before Germany and the world as one of five defendants in a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Selbstverstandlich | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

If most satisfying, this is also the most difficult method. But the character artist of the "Raven" has lost none of his salty skill. John Quincy Adams is the "thin-lipped, perspiring New Englander, who had spent a third of his life abroad"; James Monroe "The raw-boned, six-foot...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

No man knew the private White House lives of the last ten Presidents so well as Ike Hoover. No loose-lipped gossip could have held his confidential job for 42 years. Once he was offered $50.000 to write his memoirs. He refused, saying: "When I pass out, everything I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Hoover | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Turning of the Tyrol. At the end of April there were municipal elections in Innsbruck, capital of the Tyrol. Austrian Nazis polled twelve times their strength in 1931. Observers admitted that the Tyrol was probably 75% pro-Nazi. Since then has come Chancellor Dollfuss' personal success at the London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Eve of Renewal | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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