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...vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book was violently hammered on an anvil, doused in kerosene, burned on a bamboo pyre before the statue of Andres Bonifacio, one of the native leaders of the vain 1896 revolution against Spain. When a peasant in the crowd shouted Matay si Roosevelt ("Death to Roosevelt"), leaders quickly hushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Bookburning | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Fannie Rochester Rogers, Si, believed to be the last surviving grandchild of Col. Nathaniel Rochester, founder of Rochester, N. Y. (1810); of old age; at Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Father Walsh ... has convicted TIME of indecency and breach of trust in the unprivileged publication of a blasphemous Soviet cartoon; of a deliberate and unethical suppression and distortion of the documentary evidence on religious persecution in Russia which he courteously submitted, at your request, for the March Si issue of this magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Died. Arthur James Balfour, Si, first Earl of Balfour, Viscount Traprain of Whittingehame, famed British statesman; at Woking, Surrey; after a long illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved fin de siècle manner by tobacco and the hypodermic needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Again, Sherlock | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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