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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail Hungarian Nazi Leader Major Ferenc Szalasi for seditious activities, nevertheless had proved amenable to Nazi ideas. The Premier last month announced plans to bring Hungary into the German-Italian-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact. His racial laws were in some respects even sterner than the Nazis' own Nürnberg decrees. And the Premier had planned to suspend Parliament and set up a totalitarian, one-party State with himself as probable Führer, adding one more state to the Fascintern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Embarrassing Discovery | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...ghostwritten for 175 U. S. celebrities, including Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Gibbons, Jack Dempsey. Bob ("Believe It or Not") Ripley says Frank Menke can answer 4,000,000 questions. One bit of information baseball officials wish Historian Menke had not dug up: there is no proof that Cooperstown, N. Y. was the birthplace of baseball, nor that Abner Doubleday, its accredited founder, ever played the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pastimes' Past | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...though Publisher Patterson's curiosity was about to wind up in either: 1) the biggest fiasco of his career; or 2) the scientific scoop of the decade. Because topflight geneticists would not work with a tabloid newspaper, the News arranged with the commercial Applied Research Laboratories of Dayton, N. J., headed by Biologist Thomas Durfee, to do its experimenting. Director Durfee got in a supply of scientifically bred white rats whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments in Germany and England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oh, Rats | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Last year Manhattan's Columbia College seniors chose Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll as the woman with whom they would most like to be cast away on a desert island. Their scholarly reason: her ability to speak French. This year's senior class chose exotic Hedy Lamarr (née Hedy Kiesler), made no excuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Quietly, persistently, depositors appeared at the bank's main office and five branches, demanded their money. In three days the bank dished out $2,179,280. N. J. Title Guarantee & Trust still had over a million in cash on hand, but it did not open for business again. With $21,500,000 in deposits still on its books, it was the biggest bank failure in five years. Reason: under Boss Frank Hague, Jersey City's tax rate on real estate is the highest in the U. S. and the bank's assets were frozen with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Stomach-Ache | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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