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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Hells" spell disaster to the natives of El Salvador, the pocket Republic on that neck of land joining North and South America. "Little Hells'' are geysers of boiling water that hiss and squirt in the bowels of the earth until something gives way. It was El Salvador's "Little Hells" that last week brought the town of San Vicente toppling down, killing 250, injuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Squirt Quakes | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed by the same charmer and in the same fashion as himself. A captain at 21, he drove his Silver Racer on record runs to China, married a lovely, shrewd little French-Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kicks and Cuffs | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Anthony Adverse" is of uneven power. For minutes it grips the audience in the spell of its theme, while in spots it is agonizingly slow and dull. The movie would improve fifty percent if three-quarters of an hour were lopped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...fortnight in a glowing confession of faith which blurted: "Speaking generally, we are for Roosevelt for the same reason we think we would have been for Jefferson or Jackson or Lincoln had we lived in their day." Since providing President Roosevelt with a take-off for his famed "breathing spell" announcement (TIME, Sept. 16, 1935). Scripps-Howard's dapper little Publisher Roy W. Howard has kept out of the political spotlight. Last week he was having a breathing spell from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Press | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Crossing Illinois, he paused at the late great Republican Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon's hometown of Danville. ("The Supreme Court gave the country a real breathing spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Going Places | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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