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Ever since the German people got exactly what they wanted for a Chancellor exactly two years ago last week, the Fatherland has been expectant that next week or the week after beloved Adolf Hitler would arise and state his domestic program, his foreign policy or his religious views with clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Upswing Unprecedented | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

ROGER FRY, who died last year, was the Slade Professor of Art at Oxford. He was an ubiquitous figure in the world of art and had been so ever since he changed his allegiance from science to art (he went down from the University with a science degree), but though...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 2/1/1935 | See Source »

HORNETS' NEST-Helen Ashton-Macmillan ($2.50). A clever, tightly-constructed story of complications in the lives of three doctors, the staff of a nursing home and the inhabitants of an English provincial town resulting from a swab left in the incision after an appendectomy. Miss Ashton, whose Dr. Serocold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jan. 28, 1935 | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

Contenders. Strange was the mixture of contenders at the bar. In a court room filled with elderly legalites in spats and morning coats, two young men in ordinary business suits rose to argue. One was Emanuel Redfield, representing Norman C. Norman. New to the highest court in the land, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Questions Without Answers | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

The roots of this problem are as deep as our civilization. One often feels that the only remedy would be a series of drownings in sulphuric acid or of suffocations in library dust. Nevertheless, much progress has been made here at Harvard. The rules of distribution, even when most burdensome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WISSENSCHAFT | 12/20/1934 | See Source »

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