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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...population (2,550,000) almost twice that of Spanish-speaking, mainly Mestizo Dominican Republic, area 19,332 sq. mi. For years, overcrowded Haitians have been slipping over the border, squatting on Dominican land. Fortnight ago the border villages blazed with fire and the banging of musketry. When the smoke cleared, over 300 were dead on Dominican soil, mostly Haitian squatters, their wives and children. Nervous authorities in both countries feared reprisals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI-SAN DOMINGO: Border Battle | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...read large print with difficulty, writes scarcely at all. Carver Edmondson does not smoke, neither does he chew, but he admits to an occasional medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mirkels | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Some three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela side of the city which is darkened on days of east wind by smoke from the steel mills in the valley, the pseudo-Renaissance building of the Carnegie Institute stands, blackened by 40 years. There last week critics of art, newspapermen and Pittsburgh's gentlest people assembled one evening to attend a brief ceremony in memory of Andrew Carnegie, then to crowd murmuring up the Institute's broad marble stairs into 17 galleries hung with 407 paintings by artists of 13 nations. The occasion was the opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carnegie Show | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...David Kingsley a sensitive fellow who regrets having sold his soul to the latter potentate, persuades the man to discard his vapid beauty and give Terry Randall (Miss Bennett) an audition. They come around at midnight, drag Terry out of bad, and Mr. Gretzl (the producer), blows cigar smoke in her face. The unhappy young woman breaks down in a fit of coughing and chagrin, but all is saved when her sensitive friend throws off his bondage, buys the play, and takes her over professionally and personally...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

Such glimpses, however, are few and cursory. The book as a whole reveals no new juxtaposition of the parts of Jeffers' hybrid nature, but rather a wearied division between them-with the aging prophet still hell-bent on emitting clouds of sulphur and smoke, and the poet simultaneously becoming more and more corner-loving and mealy-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: California Hybrid | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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