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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since he resigned as President of the Reichsbank, stiff-starched Dr. Hjalmar ("Iron Man") Schacht has been posturing and talking as though he were still Germany's "financial spokesman." Throughout the world last week, holders of the so-called ''Young Plan Bonds" (German Government 5½s) winced when Dr. Schacht answered in Stockholm a smart Swedish reporter's question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Oracles, Trade Fair | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...there to give a push where the fragile dramatic fabric can stand it, to give gentle support where the stuff is sheer. Actor Calhern, having owed himself a good performance since his appearance in The Tyrant, makes a splendid baffled member of Parliament. If you can stand whimsy in stiff doses, Give Me Yesterday is recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Wyngarden | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Angeles, Calif. Samuel Reese Stiff petitioned Superior Court for permission to change his name to Samuel Arthur Reese. Samuel Reese Stiff is a medical student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Wyngarden | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Died. Louis Mann, 65, stage and cinema character actor, cousin of the late Representative Julius Kahn of California; of cancer; in Manhattan. Famed for his high stiff collars, his stuttering German comedy dialect, he had been on the stage for 62 years, in Friendly Enemies, The Man Who Stood Still (long run smash hits), The Second Fiddle, The Whirl of New York, Sins of the Children (cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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