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Stamm) and Mrs. Davies' female secretary. This sort of candid Capitalism is, in a foreigner, the approach which commands the most respect from Bolsheviks in Russia today; they despise a Liberal or a Pink. At the Soviet frontier, where everyone must change trains, Ambassador Davies asked for a private car. Told that the Soviet has none, he cheerfully chartered a whole ordinary sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Candid Capitalist | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Sokolnikov, once Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs and onetime Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James; 4) N. I. Muralov, leader of the proletarians who seized Moscow while Lenin & Trotsky were seizing Petrograd in 1917 and for many years Soviet Commandant of the Moscow Garrison. At the unique sort of trial which is Communism's gift to Jurisprudence, every Russian present, as well as the experienced Moscow diplomatic corps and foreign press, knew last week that the charges which Prosecutor Vishinsky was going to make in an hour-long lecture would immediately afterward be repeated by the prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Old & New Bolsheviks | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...home rule thus far included in Hollywood's dossier on the subject. Good shot: Fluther's technique in a barroom fight- fantastically complicated footwork, accompanied by no blows. A Doctor's Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self-assured young man of likely starring calibre, was until recently piloting a TWA transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...father but any chance that this will mean a premature solution of the plot's romantic elements is speedily destroyed by the fact that Colonel Denbrough's eagerness to have his daughter marry a marine is equaled only by her determination to do nothing of the sort. By the time a satisfactory compromise is reached, Phil has worked himself up to a lieutenancy through a riotous career on a Pacific island where his most spectacular achievement is reorganizing a native village on the lines of an East Side precinct, complete with fruit stand graft for his best friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...postman pulls out part of the door, places his burden on the resulting shelf, and replaces the secret panel. When he looks again everything is gone, and nobody can reach in or out, the door can't be unlocked (unless you are pretty good at that sort of thing) and finally the postman will not be forced to violate either his conscience or his union rules, which evidently forbid his using...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foiled Theft Brings Prompt Action; Foolproof Mail Box Finally Installed | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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