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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clay Georgia roads in a brand-new Ford touring car (license: FDR). In Gainesville, he took his first ride in one of the new cars which he will henceforth use when exhibiting himself to crowds . Specially built 16-cylinder, nine-passenger Cadillacs, they have handles on the windshield for Secret Service men, a stock of tear gas bombs in a compartment behind the driver's seat. Floor space behind the compartment contains plenty of room for the President to lie down in, in case anyone starts shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Georgia Pique | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...generous enough to convert this sympathy into practical aid. We, on our part, are ready to put all these criminals at the disposal of these countries, for all I care, even on luxury ships." Rudest German comment on the plan came from the Schwarze Korps, official organ of the Secret Police: "We still offer in free Hamburg a well-assorted stock of Jewish lawyers, well-preserved and well-rested women doctors, specialists for skin and social diseases, also Jewish business heads and raw material wholesalers and Jewish salesmen, the last item with considerable rebate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Refugee Committee | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

After a stay in Czechoslovakia, where he talked with "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," President Eduard Benes, Premier Milan Hodza and Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta, Mr. Hoover had moved on to Berlin. At his hotel, sharp-eyed Gestapo (secret police) agents pounced upon a suspicious-looking package addressed to Mr. Hoover. They ripped it open, to their surprise found only a picture of the late Tsarina Alexandra of Russia sent by an admiring White Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Looker & Listener | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Apparently Commissar Litvinoff, himself an Old Bolshevik, which today in Russia is risky and apt to leave one out of things, judged that New Bolshevik Butenko was a typical favorite of the Stalin entourage. Meanwhile, the Soviet Secret Political Police, who operate strictly on their own, were closing in upon Butenko at the very time when all Rumania was in ferment because of the Goga Cabinet collapse (TIME, Feb. 21). When the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires suddenly "disappeared" one night in Bucharest, the local Soviet Tass news agency man concluded that Rumanian Fascists had kidnapped or murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: New Bolshevik | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...days later, New Bolshevik Fedor Butenko quietly turned up in Rome. He explained that he had ducked out of Rumania because he had felt the hot breath of the Soviet Secret Political Police on his neck, and then provided a pretty good reason for their propinquity by going on to denounce Joseph Stalin and excoriate conditions in the Soviet Union. This seems to have left the Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: New Bolshevik | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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