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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America's point of view we are insane to think that the time to oppose the Germans-if we ever are going to-is when they land armed forces in this hemisphere. If things go on as they have been for the last three years, the Germans will never have to land a man. Even Napoleon had to admit, in the end, that ideas are all-powerful, and the ideas of Nazidom are penetrating throughout South America. They have the prestige of success, and the democracies offer -well, what do they offer...
...little worn at the edges," eh? It may interest TIME to know that in spite of supercilious critics there are thousands of music lovers and many big-league critics who rate Martinelli as the greatest of all tenors [TIME, July 3]. Caruso was never the "undisputed" supreme among the "chandelier-jigglers" either. Caruso's voice, though thrilling, certainly, was something like a trip hammer, and eventually busted his neck...
...public functions with unlimited flow of every variety of liquor at every turn, with dance halls and drinking tables on the side, richly dressed and sweet-voiced hosts and uniformed waiters repeatedly urging visitors of every age, including . . . girls, to drink-thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were. With Governor Dickinson were his adopted granddaughter, Delia Patterson, 25, and his secretary, Margaret Shaw...
...Howe made two years ago when, kidding on the square, he said that before moving to Texas, he and his late partner, Wilbur C. Hawk, nipped a coin to determine which would be Democrat, which Republican. Until his death in 1936 Hawk supported Alf Landon. But if Gene Howe never gets to Congress, he probably won't be too sorry. Never has he returned from a trip to his Texas duck blinds, daily golf, bridge & poker that he hasn't cried: "I'm never, never going away again...
...later work. According to Author Walker's researches, Bitter Bierce's misanthropy began two years after his arrival, when he became Town Crier for the satirical News Letter. Author Walker thinks Bierce enjoyed himself almost as much as did his readers. At any rate he was never sued for libel, shot at, even taken a poke at, in a country where editors' duels were commonplace. Bierce wrote the first realistic descriptions of war, was one of the few who did not sell out in the Gilded Age. But he came home from the inevitable English visit twice...