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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel. Every corridor must be empty when Der Fiihrer arrives." Sharp at 9:45 a. m. Il Duce was at Lido Airport in his favorite grey-green uniform of a Corporal of Honor of the Fascist Militia, perspiring under his black fez with red tassels. Out of a dazzling sky rocketed three Italian pursuit planes escorting two lumbering German airliners. Swooping down to a perfect landing the first German ship nosed up toward 220 gaudy Italian uniforms. A door popped open and Adolf Hitler sprang his little surprise. He stepped out not in Nazi uniform but wearing an old rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator & Dictator | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...noble crown of bays" drew a picture of the relation of success in later life to one's college. John Cotton Walcott '34 in his Ode pictured the purpose of Harvard is education to "First spur our intellect, home of our will, firm keep they face to the sky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS TAKE CLASS THEIR TALK MUST BE TO REBUILD RECONSTRUCT | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

Beneath the sullen sky, 70,000 Catholic priests, nun, 8 monks, seminarians, students, lay folk, Papal nobility and members of the Holy Name Society and Sodality of the Blesses Virgin Mary gathered along nearby streets to parade past the reviewers into the Stadium. They began marching. And suddenly the sun burst forth. It shone on the marchers, hotter and hotter. Not until they had watched the parade for three hours could Archbishop Curley and his party gather up their trains and skirts and swing in line to enter the Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Masses at Mass | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quintuplets | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...sending of pictures and printed matter through the air, is looming on the horizon of science. ... I believe the day will come when you will turn on the facsimile receiver when retiring and in the morning the paper tape will tell the story of what flashed through the sky while you slumbered.-President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co.¶ In 1949 the world's 20 largest corporations got together on a life-term installment program for goods and services. They offered each subscriber complete equipment for living-food, clothing, a home, an auto, a plane, television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Previews | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

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