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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explained Rupp: "It was not what you would term honorable but I figured people know human nature and that others would do the same thing if they wanted a certain thing badly enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Color-blind Patriot | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...What a great thing it would be if we could persuade the nations of the world to abandon the submarine for warfare! I think it must be said to the credit of this country that such a proposal was made years ago by Britain, but it has not been possible to achieve international agreement on the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Play's the Thing that deceives the young composer. In love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Inanimate objects, too?hand-organs, opera-cloaks, acacia-blossoms?the rare Molnar dramaturgy makes almost articulate. Much is said about the Molnar technique?brilliant, original. In The Play's the Thing the curtain rises on characters discussing the best way to begin a play. In Mima he builds up his climax by repeating a scene three times. In both these plays, in most of Molnar, there are several planes of reality, arranged provocatively and with an eye to permanence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...There is one good thing certainly to be said about the next war. . . . With lungs full of diphenyl chloroarsine (dropped from the invulnerable machines of the air) we shall not need to worry about anything ever again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man v. Machine | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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