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Article LXI of the Weimar Constitution is constructed entirely on the hypothesis that Austria is already German, its mystic words being, "German Austria, after its Anschluss (union) to the German Reich, shall receive the right of voting representation in proportion to its population. Until that time the representatives of German Austria shall have a consulting voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Business of Empire | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...peculiarly his own, Gordon Friesen, a new writer, has unfolded a novel of importance in Flamethrowers. It is a story of the burgeoning middle west, its good earth, the people who have come from afar to find heaven in its wheatfields . . . and the inevitable disillusionment that the uneducated mystic must find in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/3/1936 | See Source »

...particularly unctuous and ingratiating compliment to the Top Man paid by a sycophantic professor. Indeed the awful blasphemy was not at first perceived by Japanese educators and was taught for 29 years not only by Dr. Minobe but by other professors supervised by the Ministry of Education. Suddenly the mystic fanaticism, the blind patriotism and the excruciating reverence for the symbolic EMPEROR, in whom Japanese really worship Japan, exploded (TIME, March 18, 1935 et seq.), and Dr. Minobe was forced out of the Imperial University. He resigned from the House of Peers and vanished into his home outside which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Digressions from Election | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora Van Voorhis Stanton Jahncke, was one of the six lesser Carnival Queens at the Mystic Club ball. In 1931 her elder sister, Adele Townsend Jahncke Dotson, reigned over the Mistick Krewe of Comus at the most exclusive of the Mardi Gras balls. "Coco," 21, swims, golfs, rides, likes best to race sailboats. She was a favorite of the Hoovers, who sent flowers from the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Anthony's Monastery of the Capuchin Friars at Marathon, Wis. last week, a wise and white-haired monk named Rev. Theophilus Riesinger went about his daily orisons and meditations, indifferent to the fact that he was being widely publicized among U. S. Catholics as a potent and mystic exorcist of demons. Publicizers were the Religious Bulletin of the University of Notre Dame, and the Catholic Register of Denver, whose 300,000 subscribers last fortnight read the following story condensed from a pamphlet called Begone Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Exorcist & Energumen | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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