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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Stalin publicly reviewed in Red Square this week a dazzling demonstration of Soviet armed might. In private, Moscow observers noted that scarcely one year has passed since the Dictator began the most spectacular purge that ever hit an army, navy, air force. Last week it was possible to reconstruct from numberless small items in the Russian official press a fairly accurate picture of the secret May-to-May military purge which is not over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: May-to-May | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Mississippi-Rector van Etten again broadcast on KDKA. He organized a choir with numerous boys whose fathers had sung in the 1921 service, had it accompanied by the organist of the original broadcast. An extempore sermonizer, Dr. van Etten found the notes of his first broadcast, attempted to reconstruct his 17-year-old words, ad libbing as well on the wonders of radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Broadcasts | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

President Hutchins is a lawyer by training. He believes that lawyers and educators interested in training lawyers must reconstruct legal education so as to achieve a learned profession and the common good. He would train lawyers to practice for the welfare of the community and not as a means of making money. Legal education as he would provide it would train student lawyers thus: ¶To search for and order knowledge relevant to legal problems. C. To know the methods of legal analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reform for New York | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Your article captioned "Dead Head" (TIME, Aug. 31), describing the reconstruction of the probable appearance of a murdered man from his mutilated head, recalled to my mind a case in which an almost identical technique was employed successfully to bring about the identification of a homicidal victim whose face had been burned with acid and fire beyond all recognition. This case happened in Vienna, and the victim was a young woman. Viennese police had a sculptor reconstruct the face of the woman as it probably looked in life. From a photograph of this reconstruction, the woman was identified as Katherina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Marchesa's book belongs to the class of literature in which one finds Mrs. Virginia Woolf's "Flush" and Thomas Mann's "Bashan and I," attempts of highly sophisticated writers to plumb the depths of child or animal minds and to reconstruct the experience of events witnessed by such minds...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/10/1936 | See Source »

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