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...last week, more than 40% of Germany's traveling salesmen, 110,000 out of 265,000, were Jews. Despite Nazi antiSemitism, many large German firms have preferred to retain Jewish salesmen because, although officially scorned and often individually spat upon, they have managed to outsell Aryan competitors, Last week the Government decided that after October 1 all traveling salesmen in Germany must be Aryans, decreed that the licenses of all Jewish sales representatives in the Reich, which expire this week, cannot be renewed. These licenses correspond to the labor permits issued by the Labor Front, which every employe, German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Salesmen Delicensed | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...been kicked, spat upon and otherwise insulted. Another woman had been shot in the stomach, made a prisoner, and taken to the inn, where we found her." Correspondents found both women in a hospital at Falkenau. Dr. Stoehr, the Sudeten physician in charge, hustled them out while the women called from their beds, "Let us speak to the foreign correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sons of Death | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...unknown reason, the famed geysers of Yellowstone Park in recent months have acted up. Eruption schedules have been disrupted. Old Faithful spat its steam to a record height of 223 ft. But according to a U. S. Department of Interior report last month (TIME, July 4), Old Faithful was still true to its name: it still blew off for five minutes every hour, like clockwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Unfaithful^ | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Walking across the Johns Hopkins campus one day after a rain, Dr. Wood passed a group of students. As he went by, he spat into a puddle. Instantly, to their amazement, a jet of diabolic yellow flame spurted from the water, fizzled for several seconds before going out. When he passed the same way a quarter-hour later, the students were still arguing about how he did it. What the scientist had done was to conceal a bit of metallic sodium in a piece of paper in his hand. Sodium is so active chemically that it burns on contact with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prince | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Further evidence of the insidious war propaganda was shown Tuesday night when the sounds of "tramping foemen" echoed through the entire building dedicated to peaceful research. "Who would think of death or sorrow? Death is glory now" the Harvard Glee Club spat out with vicious determination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

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