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...Westphalia fields are paid by the French-owned de Wendel properties. This famed international munitions trust uses cast-iron props and other gadgets considered "advanced" in Europe throughout its Friedrich Wilhelm Mine. There the average miner's monthly wage is 210 marks ($84.35) and ne rents nis nouse and garden from the de Wendels for 24 marks per month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Windsors in Naziland | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...London, where the Duke of Windsor was taking a fresh dive in prestige, his youngest brother, the Duke of Kent, suddenly found himself the target of a press which, having tasted royal scandal, lusted for more. Kent had got into the news, while nis Duchess was abed with her second child, by going with his orchidaceous friend Mrs. Allen to have his bumps read by a phrenologist and posing with Mrs. Allen on the doorstep (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Shotgun Sequel | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Hard-working Walter Damrosch toured the U. S. for years thereafter, with nis own Damrosch Opera Company and with the New York Symphony which played in scores of towns where great orchestral music was completely unknown. While still in his 20's the young conductor learned the value of diplomacy, the power of a bouquet. He kept peace among his jealous singers. He made friends with Andrew Carnegie who built Manhattan's big concert hall. When visiting Carnegie in Scotland he met Maine's James G. Elaine and soon after married Elaine's Daughter Margaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jubilee | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...last week (see map). Italy had 75,000 men at the frontier ready to move in an hour. Due north in Bavaria was the famed Austrian Legion of approximately 30,000 exiled Nazis ready to march back into Austria with weapons from German arsenals whenever Adolf Hitler should nod nis head. Along the Czechoslovak frontier approximately 35,000 men, with the heaviest siege guns in Central Europe, were ready for the first nation that started something. Viennese knew that the Czech frontier is only 25 miles away, that one of the great Skoda guns could blow the steeple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Interlude | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...STREET OF THE SANDALMAK-ERS - Nis Petersen - Macmillan ($2.50). Tale of Rome in Marcus Aurelius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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