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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hjalmar Schacht, German master of ledgerdemain, ousted from the Reichsbank presidency in January to make way for Nazi inflationists, embarked on a world-circling vacation trip. Last week he arrived in Bombay, India, tush-tushed reports that he had come to barter for Indian cotton. Surprisingly unsanguine, he said of Britain's stop-Hitler alliances: "We will do our best when the time comes. . . . We will give them a good fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Wizard's Words | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...vocal impulses in the wording of a command are not delivered just right, Elektro may apparently disobey. In Pittsburgh last week the robot made nice publicity for himself by disobeying his master. His designer, Engineer J. M. Barnett, practicing signals for reporters, ordered him to raise one arm. Instead he started walking backward, kept on walking backward even when commanded to stop by the engineer, who grew a little excited-and still less careful of his phrasing. Elektro might have backed through a wall had not Robotmaster Barnett shut off his supply of electric power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Talents | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

BERLIN--Chancellor Adolf Hitler today ordered the Reichstag to meet April 28 to hear his answer to what the Nazi-controlled press described as President Roosevelt's "hafe message." Coincidentally reports that Hitler might become master of Danzig within a few days increased...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week, as the voice of his fugitive master, King Zog I, dwindled away behind the mountains of Greece, drowned out by the cannon of Mussolini, Minister Konitza betook himself to the State Department to protest his country's rape and to announce that he, like Minister Hurban of Czecho-Slovakia (TIME, March 27), would not yield his legation to his country's conquerors. Should he hear from King Zog that all was lost he would, he said, burn all his papers: the Italians should never have them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Inscrutable Design | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...room, dictate all his surgical notes, make his own sketches for hospital records. In his 20 years at Harvard, Dr. Cushing collected some 2,000 brain tumors, which he stored in bottles. Many of these are pituitary tumors, for Dr. Cushing has done pioneer work in diseases of this master gland. These specimens, with their corresponding case histories, form the most remarkable neurological collection in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BRAINMAN | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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