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...thus obtained being disposed of in part through Fence Litvinoff); and later as Dictator occasioning the deaths of thousands of Russians by his drastically obeyed order to "liquidate the kulak as a class." Let not Reader Ober rob the Dictator of terroristic laurels sweet to an Old Bolshevik whose proudest boasts are always about the number of years he spent in jail for crimes committed in Tsar Nicholas' reign.-ED. Sovereigns to Left Sirs: I note in your issue of Feb. 3, under the article "Make a Big V!" the statement: "In successive reigns the head of the Sovereign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Throughout Depression the proudest of U. S. opera companies was the San Francisco organization which, though its seasons were brief, imported expensive singers, moved into a handsome new municipal auditorium and never gasped for money. Last autumn the San Francisco Opera peaked its artistic career by presenting Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen at a cost of some $80,000 (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Wallace M. Alexander of the Opera Association announced a deficit of $45,000, recommended a begging campaign for $50,000 to insure another season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco's Cry | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...Senate vacancy left by the death of her husband. He also promised that the Democratic State Central Committee would promptly bequeath her the nomination which Governor Allen had just won to serve out the remaining year of the late "Kingnsh's" term. Said Governor Noe: "This is the proudest moment of my life." Said Senator John H. Overton of Louisiana: "It is a just and beautiful tribute to the memory of Senator Long." Said Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkan sas: "It will be nice to have a woman's company in the Senate." Said Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lady from Louisiana | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...when it comes to breeding? In twelve generations of careful breeding you couldn't even eliminate the tendency to go to sleep in church. And there's no family under the sun that's had twelve generations of careful breeding. Or even five generations. Take the proudest family in the world and they'd be ashamed to mention the occupations of all 32 of their great-great-great-great-grandfathers. That is, if they knew them. But they don't know them, because they've paid attention only to the particular lines of descent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...sometimes three ceremonies a day took place last week in the White House office. While proud Congressional parents stood at his elbow, the President baptized bill after bill with "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Not one important bill left by Congress did he veto. Proudest signing of the week was that of the Guffey Coal Bill attended by a host of Congressional godfathers, watched over by John L. Lewis and other officers of the United Mine Workers and followed at once by 1) steps to call off the coal strike scheduled for Sept. 24 and 2) a suit filed by Carter Coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Clean-up & Away | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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