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With troops, tanks and tear gas President Hoover succeeded in driving the Bonus Expeditionary Force out of Washington fortnight ago. But that did not break up the tatterdemalion army and scatter it home. With diplomacy replacing armed force, the rest of the job was accomplished last week by the combined efforts of Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio R. R., David Barry, brother-in-law of Steelman Charles Michael Schwab, and "Eddie" McCloskey. scrappy little Mayor of Johnstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: B. E. F.'s End | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...honor. The Red propagandists said three words: "Peace, Bread and Land." "They knew the people. . . . They whispered three words, then waited three months, then acted." Outlawed, the Lancers tried to win their way back to Poland, hid in the forests, finally had to desert their beloved horses and scatter. Boleslavski took shelter with a mad woman who thought he was her dead husband returned from the War. Mixing with a mob of soldiers he got away to Moscow and another life. Way of the Lancer, written in collaboration with Helen Woodward, is the March choice of The Literary Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poles Apart | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Cock of the Air (Howard Hughes), which was vigorously censored before release, emerges as a not particularly happy Wartime farce in which Chester Morris, as a scatter-brained aviator, jokes with, flies with, drinks with, wrestles with and finally suggests matrimony with Billie Dove, as a Parisian actress, whose costume armor is heard clanking to the floor at the end of the picture. Typical shot: Chester Morris squirting seltzer at Billie Dove when she slaps him for an improper proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...play depends entirely on its urban scene. The Frenches were a proud, suave clan as long as they could cling to their Fifth Avenue mansion. When the son gets into financial trouble, compels the family to sell the homestead to keep him out of jail, the Frenches become impotent, scatter like smoke in the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...places and break the thin ice at the edge to get a drink-occasionally one will get beyond the sure footing of the bank to a very smooth place where his sharp hoofs get no purchase. Then the boys have to get a rope to help him out, or scatter straw or leaves so he can help himself. It has happened that his struggles have carried him further and further from land; thoroughly exhausted by his labors, he is found frozen to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1931 | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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