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A persevering, peppery researcher, Kenneth Roberts digs through piles of books and documents to get his facts, fills the margins of his source books with curt comments: "He's a liar. . . . Nuts. . . . Untrue. . . . The louse judgment of a literary louse. . . . What an ass!" He never hesitates to disagree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Downright Down-Easter | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

*The correct answer to this rhetorical question is, of course, No. Had the South voted solidly for Hoover in 1932, for Landon in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt would still have been elected in each year by a big margin.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Crossing the Line | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

One-eyed Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio solemnly informed General Achille Starace, Fascist party secretary general, that he was making "final tests" on a powerful chemical of his own devising so that he could dissolve himself. Declaimed the author of A Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Simplest way for John Doe to draw a will that will be admitted to probate is for him to call in two friends, tell them what he is doing, ask them to witness his signature to the following testament: "I give everything to my wife, Mary Doe, in the event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Athenian Will | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

To the credit of President Frank is the progress which the University has made since 1925. Neither the analytical casuistry of Regent Gates nor the rhetorical thunderbolts of Regent Wilkie can disguise this fact. True, the most notable of Frank's attempted reforms, the Experimental College, failed to achieve the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THUNDER ROLLS ON | 1/8/1937 | See Source »

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