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Since Warsaw promptly interprets any major political development in terms of the emotions of Poland's beloved Dictator, gruff, walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski, major interest was aroused by a remark dropped by one of the Marshal's aides: "Sentimental reasons,among others, prompt him to make peace with Lithuania. His old mother, whom he loved with passionate devotion and gratitude, lies buried on Lithuanian soil. He himself grows old and he cannot visit her grave so long as the Polish-Lithuanian frontier remains closed and relations continue strained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Dictator's Mother | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...forgotten and will quickly forget again that there ever was an Italo-Abyssinian agreement, sponsored at Geneva this winter by the League Council. "My interpretation of the agreement is," continued Abyssinia's Great Editor, "that Abyssinia and Italy recommence direct negotiations forthwith, with the sole purpose of arranging prompt arbitration of various matters in dispute. These include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Negroes v. Blackshirts | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...Progress in Chicago he exhibited a toy replica of the Union Pacific's crack M-IOOOI-the first toy train built absolutely to scale (1/45th). Orders began streaming in by the thousands. Last week in Newark, U. S. District Judge Guy L. Fake, congratulating the receivers on their prompt rehabilitation of the company, terminated the receivership, handed the company back to its management with liquid assets greatly increased. All creditors had been paid in full within eight months. Christmas sales had been the biggest in history, sales for the full year biggest since the peak year 1930. Said Judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lionel Line | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...room, thus find themselves prospective violators of the new bills. In London slums, Government inspectors have reported up to ten residents per room. Last week Sir E.'s new measures contained emergency clauses to prevent police from cracking down unjustly or too soon, but breathed the urgency of prompt building action. For the first time Parliament will be asked to vote a nationwide uniform building subsidy. In England and Wales this may mean to the owner of a new house a maximum of $25 per year from the Government for 20 years, plus $12.50 per year for the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nelsonian Santa Claus | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES TO COMPLETE IT AHEAD OF TIME AS OUR ANSWER TO THE DASTARDLY ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE KIROV." The city of Vyatka, capital of the province in which the slain Big Red was born, asked and received Dictator Stalin's prompt permission to change its name to Kirov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pure Terror | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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