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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said the old men, help one fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/25/1933 | See Source »

...marks ($175,000,000 Roosevelt), largest in German history. Though contributions are supposed to be "voluntary," resolute Storm Troops have enforced the principle that German workers must contribute 1% of their net wages, salaried employes a little more, housewives a monthly sum which they are required to save by denying their families one hearty Sunday dinner per month, substituting a meal which must not cost over 50 pfennigs per person. Officially the 500,000,000-mark fund is administered by the German Red Cross, Evangelical Church, Catholic Church and Nazi Relief Bureau. Last week the Nazi Bureau announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woe to the Weak | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...caught his brother Michael making love to his wife Fayne: in an instant he had killed Michael. Next instant he regretted it: and if quick-witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement was too much for him: she saw him going slowly mad before her eyes. When at last he threw himself over a cliff Fayne was not surprised, would not let herself follow him because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hawk-eye | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...blocking action at Stresa, he hopes to force Hitler back into the Geneva parley, but it is highly questionable that this can be done. For Hitler's dominance, like the dominance of any dictator, depends upon the concrete results he can show, and German sentiment is that not much save elocution can come from Geneva...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/21/1933 | See Source »

...republic it is always with us, and there is scarcely an important daily whose policy it does not mould and inform. We have developed, by our demand, a large class of journalistic ferrets with no art but that of intruding themselves where they are not wanted, no talent save for the wholesale violation of confidence and the ambiguous techniques of defamation. For one of these men the republic has reserved a special, an unprecedented kudos; his melancholy bray assaults us on the radio, his face looks out of a hundred advertisements, his every discretion and impertinence is read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/19/1933 | See Source »

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