Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your recent account of a shooting here (TIME, Feb. 6) was written with characteristic colorfulness, but it seems that you sacrificed accuracy to attain this end. The student in question did not shoot his professor until fully a half hour after he was seen cribbing. This move was made after he had confirmed his expulsion from the institution, which is automatic in such cases. What is more important, he returned to his quarters before doing...
...their taxable net income. This exemption ruling continues in force. At least two of the leading tax service publications noted the ruling in 1938, but evidently it was not observed in the 1939 revision of Simon & Schuster's manual, Your Income Tax, which you reviewed in your recent issue of TIME, Feb. 20. Your review erroneously stated that contributions to birth control organizations are not deductible...
Last week Pandit Nehru refused any longer to compromise. Shortly after the recent re-election to the Congress presidency of Subhas Chander Bose, Bengal Leftist leader, over the opposition of M. K. Gandhi, the Mahatma withdrew his support from the organization he had long nurtured. Soon most of the other well-known leaders who had worked with Mahatma Gandhi followed suit. For Pandit Nehru, however, there was a difficult choice: he was doctrinally sympathetic toward Mr. Bose but his personal devotion to the Mahatma was intense. He finally chose devotion and, in a bitter letter to Mr. Bose, resigned...
...notion came into its own at San Francisco in Pacific House. A clean, well-lighted place, surrounded by the pavilions and temples of India, Siam, Burma, Indo-China, Japan and the Americas, Pacific House has map-murals as its principal decoration. Its urbane idea-man was Philip Newell Youtz, recent director and modernizer of the Brooklyn Museum. His best idea: four large (15-by-24-feet) mural maps of the Pacific side of the world, by Mexico's Miguel Covarrubias...
MURDER TO HOUNDS-Edward Acheson-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Murder in a neurotic fox-hunting Virginia family, combining an innocuous love story with the most engaging Englishman in recent crime fiction...