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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organizations which then primarily wanted to eradicate prostitution. Soon practically all U. S. municipalities abolished their "red light" districts to which houses of prostitution, advertised by red lanterns, had been restricted. Then the War developed. Dr. Snow joined the Army, kept wenches away from cantonments, prophylaxis stations with every regiment, and antivenereal news in all the newspapers of the land. Active public interest in venereal disease lasted until about 1920, after which propagandists could get practically nothing into print, and not a hint over the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Pox (Cont'd) | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...used, but whom correspondents were able to describe as "well known for works he has exhibited at the Carnegie art shows in Pittsburgh."* ¶ The physical work of impounding, packing and shipping to safety Madrid's works of art is in the hands of the Communist Fifth Regiment. Its work is not limited to protecting known works in churches, museums and public buildings. Daily the homes of aristocrats and other Rebel sympathizers are raided, the zealous comrades proudly hustling cartloads of worthless chromos, plaster statuettes and other knick-knacks back to the Junta. ¶ Though the Prado has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasures Protected | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Among them: the Chaco, which is settled really only in so far as Bolivia and Paraguay have temporarily exhausted their economic resources; an ephemeral revolution in Ecuador, where a regiment last week revolted, set up their artillery on a hill and put a few shells into the Presidential Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Pan-American Party | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Marie Gustave Gamelin, recently investigated his War record and cleared him of desertion. Enemies cracked back that General Gamelin did not head an official Commission of Honor but only acted in concert with two veterans' organizations, and that anyhow the still-living French officers of Salengro's regiment all say today in Paris that he was a deserter, and they ought to know. Friends retorted that, in Germany, Prisoner Salengro organized an attempted revolt of 40 other French prisoners and for this got two years in one of the Fatherland's jails, which in France should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cyclist Salengro | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Edward von Losch, lieutenant in a regiment of Prussian Grenadiers, was stationed there. In 1915 von Losch was killed at Kovno on the Russian Front. After the War Marlene decided to try acting, changed her name to Dietrich, enrolled in Max Reinhardt's school in Berlin. To get money she worked as an extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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