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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared itself behind the National Socialist Christian Party judging from its editorial and news presentation. The editor-in-chief of 'L'Illustration.' Adrien Arcand, is also the Supreme Chief of the N. S. C. P. This move would indicate that the Duplessis government is rapidly putting on the coloured shirt...

Author: By The STANFORD Daily and Arnold Issenman, S | Title: Quebec's Padlock Law Is Restriction Upon Speech Freedom by Reactionaries | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

General Rodríguez is known on the border as the in & out leader of Mexico's exiguous Los Dorados ("The Gold Shirts"). Four years ago he had a few thousand followers in Mexico City who sported gold-colored jackets and Texas hats, if they could afford them, attacked small Jewish shopowners. Then they made the mistake of trying to break up a workers' parade and soon after General Rodriguez was flown to the border. On the U. S. side of the line he has gathered about him no 800,000 men but a handful of other disgruntled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Border | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Allison, who speaks Japanese, diplomatically confined himself to adding that the sentry "livid with rage . . . shouted at us in a most offensive manner," grabbed Mr. Riggs, tore the collar and some buttons from his shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Face | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Herbert Wilcox) is the trade name of a light-footed, light-fingered, essentially noble Paris Apache with a Viennese accent (Anton Walbrook), whose associations with 1) a maiden pure of heart (Renee Ray), 2) a fancy lady (Ruth Chatterton), and 3) a predatory stuffed shirt (Hugh Miller) leave Montmartre's half-world a better place to live in. The Rat was originally (1924) a pot-boiled play by England's Constance Collier and Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello. On the screen it is still the same lukewarm dish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

From the United Press at Rapid City: "Local Ladies' Aid Societies deny they are or have been interested in Gary Cooper's shirt tails . . . ask . . . where the story originated so they may take steps to quash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shirt Tale | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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