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...desire to say to the whole Italian people," he told a cheering Italian throng last week on the 16th anniversary of the founding of the Fascist Party, "that no event whatsoever will find us unprepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Berlin Mission | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont. They crossed themselves before a great marble statue of St. Joseph, gazed in awe at the multitude of discarded crutches, braces, trusses which filled the alcoves and niches of the crypt. And of the throng of pilgrims many a halt or ailing one passed on through the crypt to a little office where sat a little old man, known to all as Brother Andre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Healer | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...event was last night. The Shaipliests and the Shappliests were mingled into one excited throng, eagerly awaiting the correct pronunciation from the lips of the introducer. The battle was almost over. The correct pronunciation.--need we tell you?--is Shapley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/12/1935 | See Source »

...Union waitresses gathered in an excited throng about Miss Murray Just before the meal last night. There was much tittering and giggling and wondering what the trouble could be. Some claimed Miss Murray was attempting to explain the four-five no trump bid in the reaching of grand slams. Others had it that the new and amorous looking policeman on a local beat was causing considerable upheaval among the hearts of the waiting lasses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/8/1935 | See Source »

...this vast throng moves eastward- some walking, some riding in oxcarts, some speeding on motorcycles, some sitting back in fast limousines-various stories unfold. The banking Jews plot to make the new state which is to rise in the Gobi into a capitalist nation. The Communist Jews insist that all property be pooled. The Socialist Jews do not know what they want. And the liberal Jews are occasionally wounded in trying to keep the Socialists and the Communists from killing each other before they have even reached the new Promised Land. Mr. Nathan seems to be protesting that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nation Into Exile | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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