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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However, no nimble-footed sharpshooter was brash enough to forge ahead and when the startled populace at Faenza rushed into the streets to welcome Il Duce, he was still in the lead. Congratulating the Bersaglieri on their condition, he gave their commander 3,000 lire ($157) to buy them special mess kits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Command Performance | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...other repressive anti-Semitic decrees issued since Adolf Hitler rose up to save the German people five years ago, was added a new decree whose simple purpose was to suffocate what is left of Jewish economic life. Main provisions: 1) Jewish concerns will be identified, probably with special signs on the place of business; 2) if one member of the board of a limited company is a Jew, the concern will be Jewish; 3) if one-fourth of the capital is owned by Jews, the company will be Jewish. Furthermore, "Aryan" trading with Jews will be considered a "deliberate demonstration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Our Sorrow | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...National League pennant for the Reds (in third place and only four games behind the League-leading Giants). The club front office was stampeded for tickets. A sportswriter suggested that a statue of Vander Meer replace that of onetime U. S. President James A. Garfield in Garfield Square. In special session at Columbus, the Ohio Senate passed a resolution in "tribute to the newly crowned king of the baseball world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Lefthander | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Barcelona (1936), Paris (1937). In each cooperating nation a committee appoints a jury of well-known native musicians to judge works submitted by their countrymen. Selections of these national juries are then submitted to a special international jury elected each year by the society's Council of Delegates. This year's jury: Modernist Composers Darius Milhaud (France) and Alois Haba (Czechoslovakia), Conductors Sir Adrian Cedric Boult (England), Ernest Ansermet (Switzerland), Thomas Jensen (Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: International Egg Rolling | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Patients & Practitioners the convention, assembled in various special groups, listened to some 275 member physicians reveal what tricks of the profession the past year had turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors in San Francisco | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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