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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest the Treasury Department consider Typographer Dwiggins merely a destructive critic he went further still. The back of the book is devoted to an explanation of what he would do about it with designs full size, printed in colors, for the currency of the mythical Republic of Antipodes: a five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Decorous Jubilee | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

Startled by a squeal, Horace Holden turned his head, saw a sight that throttled him. He stamped on his brakes and lunged toward the back seat. Old Laborer Smith was pressing a knife blade against the throat of Spitz Fluffy!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Thriller | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

A friend of the head pharmacist of the U. S. had a sore foot. He bought some bichloride of mercury tablets for an antiseptic footwash. Several days later he took several "Aspirin" tablets, died poisoned by the deadly bichloride. Therefore last week U. S. manufacturing druggists and editors of pharmaceutical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison Tablets | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Britain still stands off the gold standard. Last week one dealer reported that he was buying 1,000 British goldpieces of ?i denomination a day, paying for them of course somewhat "more" in paper. Was this legal-this trafficking in gold pieces stamped with the image of the Sovereign- to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Brains | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

The work of the two men, Verrocchio the realist and Desiderio the exquisite sentimentalist, dominates the exhibition. The same Verrocchio who produced the mighty Colleoni has given us the forceful bust of Giuliano dei Medici. The sculptor has portrayed Lorenzo's brother as the victor in the great Tournament of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/18/1932 | See Source »

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