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To Bardsville sensitive young Perse Munn returns after a term in a St. Louis law school, is mixed up in the affairs of the tobacco farmers' cooperative before he knows what it is to mean to him, to his pretty wife, or to the Trust. "Purposes and ideals of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tobacco War | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

As the violence spreads, Perse's lovely wife leaves him. His affair with the sensual daughter of his good friend, Mr. Christian, ends bitterly. He defends a grower on a charge of murdering a neighbor, gets him off, but finds his client was guilty and had framed an innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tobacco War | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

At first they came out beautifully-Max Reinhardt took to him, and when he was 27 one of his plays won the Kleist Prize (German counterpart of the Pulitzer Prize for drama)-but later his chestnuts be came .ashes, too. Not that he was perse cuted; he was 100% "Aryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Times Are Coming | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Chargé d'Affaires Légation Impériale de Perse Washington, D. C.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1933 | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

But if bootleggers aren't au fait perse--? Such a pleasant vagary as this just goes to prove that even the Supreme Court, like the sorrowful heroes of Aeschylus, may have a slight dent in its armour.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIED ERMINE | 1/25/1930 | See Source »

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