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In 1926 Mexico broke off diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, had not resumed them up to last week, partly because of Mexican suspicions that the Nicaraguan Government has been a set-up propped by U. S. Marines. Now that the props are gone, Mexico, according to El National, may soon find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Big Stick | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

The story itself, about a country boy (Eric Linden) who comes to New York to set the town on fire and goes home with scorched fingers, might have been much better handled. Ward Morehouse, who wrote it, is a theatrical reporter who knows more about how theatrical people talk than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 19, 1932 | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

When the late Charles William Eliot resigned the presidency of Harvard in 1909, Harvard stood for Philosophy. Death, desertion and desuetude soon left President Abbott Lawrence Lowell little to boast about in that department. During subsequent periods Harvard has stood for Literature, Freshman Dormitories, Astronomy, House Plan, according to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Harvard | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

This being Holy Week and Boston being Boston, there is at present only one legitimate theatre in town that is not dark. That is the Copley; which offers the most typical mystery play this reviewer remembers having seen. All the props that one usually connects with a mystery are brought...

Author: By O. W. Jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/23/1932 | See Source »

The full tide of 1918 swirled in around the props of royalty and rotted out the pediments of thrones. While monarchs trailed off into exile, their kingdoms passed away. And now with the ebb tide of 1932, it has become apparent that not even the quicksands of democracy have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLTAIRE HAD A WORD FOR IT | 1/27/1932 | See Source »

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