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...last March this bright-eyed, keenly dynamic little man snatched fame by the same means as Medieval Hamelin's mythical Pied Piper. Instead of rats he led peasants, hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands from all over the countryside on a weird, terrifying, peaceful march to Bucharest (TIME, Mar. 26, 1928). Squatting and sleeping 60,000 strong in the streets of the Capital, the peasants demanded that the then No. 1 Oligarch, Prime Minister Vintila Bratianu, resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peasant After Peasant | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Clarence De Mar, marathon runner, schoolteacher, on his way to lecture, missed his train, trotted 38 mi. from Harrison to Portland. Me., took another train, got there on time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 25, 1930 | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Pink and White" was an Homeric epithet attached to Randolph Church, 18, son of Winston Churchill, on the occasion of a slashing philippic which he delivered in the Oxford Union on the Labor Party's "weak" policy in Egypt (TIME, Mar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...Gioconda - Cielo e Mar and L'Elisire d'Amore - Una Furtiva Lagrima by Beniamino Gigli (Victor, $2) - Gallery grand opera by the tenor who does it best. Chosen by Victor as its May "Great Record-of-the-Month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...Clarence De Mar, 43: the annual Boston 26 mi. 385 yd. marathon; entered for the 13th time; his seventh victory; by 400 yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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