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...Frankfurt, Emil Weiller, senior partner of the 136-year-old J. I. Weiller Sons, famed private bankers, took poison in his office, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Pan-Chaos | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...shot in the head. My father rose, with his old friend Grandzsa by his side. Punica Ratchitch continued to fire and my father fell, together with Grandzsa and another Croat named Peruar. Taken to a hospital my father died a few weeks later, both from his wounds and from poison administered at the behest of the same men who instigated the massacre by Punica Ratchitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Raditch on Raditch | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Born in The Bronx, she left school to go on the stage, stole the play when, in Crime, she sat on a park bench and said "Squeeze me" to boy friends. She has her make-up prescribed for her by a chemist; other kinds poison her. Scarcely five feet tall, she loathes outdoor exercise, has a quick temper and five nicknames (Slivick, Monkey, Goofy, Brat, Funny Face). She speaks Yiddish, wears no underclothes, cannot eat eggs, can twist her right wrist so that it cracks, likes to go to Bellevue Hospital to hear lectures on psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again Arbuckle? | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Fight-Minded Finland. After stalking over all Europe, Mr. Knickerbocker found only one nation with the seesoo (guts) to fight Soviet traders, namely Finland.* In Helsingfors. the resolute Finnish populace was found to be building poison-gasproof rooms in private homes, factories, hotels and hospitals. The idea: Leningrad is only one hour by plane from Helsingfors. At any moment a Soviet air fleet may appear over the Finnish capital, loose gas bombs. On hotel tables at Helsingfors are round green receptacles for coins. A sign on each beseeches: "Give your bit for gas defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MENACE! ! Menace? | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...week Briton Bell also led. Too much of a gentleman to flay by name the country in which he was a guest, Banker Bell politely remarked: ''Tariffs, as I see them, are the intrusion into economic well-being of the cannon and the machine gun, the high explosive, the poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Universal Crisis | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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