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Compared to Stalin and Communism, Mussolini and Fascism are negligible forces. More than 69 times larger than the Kingdom of Italy, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics wields the might of the largest standing army on earth (725,000 men???U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements?which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Everybody's Red Business | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...Iceland we look upon businessmen with the same skepticism with which literary men are regarded in some other countries. . . . The ambition of every genuine young Icelander is to become a literary man. . . . Our most important statesmen have all been literary men???poets, authors, historians and educators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICELAND: Shamefaced Bankers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, in order that the newspapers might be well supplied with barbs for their shafts, he published an entire issue of his magazine written by famous daughters of famous men???Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, President Harrison, Horace Greeley, William M. Thackeray, William Dean Howells, General Sherman, Mr. Gladstone and a score of others. . . . Benjamin Harrison's articles on 'This Country of Ours' appeared successfully in the magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Story-Book Bok | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...WOMAN WHO COMMANDED 500,000,000 MEN???Charles Pettit?Liveright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Indiana, the National Confectioners' Association convened, announced: ". . . The masculine sweet tooth is steadily growing sweeter. . . . Candy has become a food for he-men???and the 'heer' they are the more candy they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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