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...dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge in the gallant blue of the old K.u.K (Kaiserliche und Königliche) Armee, long vanished from the modern world except in Hollywood cinemas. Such a uniform, besides snubbing Germany, would remind Hungarians that they had once marched beside Austrians in that uniform, would suggest an Austro-Hungarian combine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Dollfuss v. Undesirables | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...Feckless Dinner-Party," a gro- tesque parable of how a sophisticated group of diners were led astray by the butler ("Toomes") into the dark, silent cellars, the broken conversational lines may remind the reader of de la Mare's famed relation, Robert Browning, but the theme and its unraveling are very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gossamer & Ghosts | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

Sanctions. Did this mean that France and Britain might exercise their rights under the Treaty and send troops to the Rhine bridgeheads again? Would President Roosevelt be expected to send another expeditionary force to Coblenz? Apparently not. Secretary of State Hull hastened to remind the U. S. Press that the U. S. had never signed the Treaty of Versailles, was no party to its provisions. France, satisfied with having won the British Government to its point of view, eschewed talk of reoccupation, said that the only "sanctions" that could be applied would be an economic blockade of Germany under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Isolation | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

Wives of some great men remind us that we can make our lives sublime. The enthusiasm with which Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt throws herself into teaching, baby-culture,* charity and social crusades is rivaled by pistol-toting Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's fervor on behalf of working women & children. Early one morning last week at Northampton. Pa. a State car rolled up to the D & D Shirt Co. factory and out stepped Pennsylvania's First Lady, clad in a red corduroy coat, red hat. Pinned on Airs. Pinchot's coat was a streamer labeled: STRIKER. At the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Picketer | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

Sharing long, long thoughts with Boston in her bereavement, Harvard cannot but reflect on how the love of symbols makes the whole world kin. From nursery days, every man garners to himself all manner of sticks and stones to remind him of great days passed and glories hoped for. There are totems for Indians, Ikons for Russians, aviators for Prussians, and St. George for England. And for Boston, a whittled pieces of pine--the sacred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOPWORN TAXIDERMY | 4/28/1933 | See Source »

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