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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruddy-cheeked General Hans Kundt returned to Bolivia from post-War Germany to Prussianize Bolivia's restless Army, set up a system of espionage. Under him ex-Cadet Busch rose fast, became adjutant to Kundt, then Chief of the General Staff, was aide to Ernst Roehm when that luckless Nazi spent two years in Bolivia after a quarrel with Adolf Hitler. Germán Busch was a second lieutenant of 24 when the Chaco War began, a captain at 28, major at 29, lieut. colonel before the war ended, chief of staff soon afterward. Meanwhile he married, fathered three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Busch Putsch | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...famed novel about the medical profession, Yaleman Sinclair Lewis pilloried pretentious scientists by describing an imaginary and phony temple of science called McGurk Institute on Manhattan's Cedar Street. Arrowsmith was published before the founding of Yale University's Institute of Human Relations, but by a luckless coincidence Yale's Institute in New Haven also stands on a Cedar Street. Yale's Institute has many critics who make the most of that coincidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Freud, for Society, for Yale | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...quota of 3,170,000 diapers, the Commissariat of Light Industry had managed to turn out only 765,900 in the first nine months of the year. To make matters worse, Izvestia somewhat puzzlingly added, "many of these failed to reach the ultimate consumer." Presaging a "purge" of the luckless officials, the paper blamed "inefficient organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Diaper Trouble | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

That Whitman was a democrat everybody knows. But nobody has shown as clearly as Mr. Arvin what Whitman's democracy meant: stump speeches for the luckless Martin Van Buren, support for Tyler the Whig when Tyler took up Andrew Jackson's old fight against the United States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Democracy's Poet | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...film, raw or exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sh! The Publican | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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