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Accurate news was hard to get since the rioters' first act was to cut every trunk telephone line in sight. Most conspicuous leader was one Sergeant Pip Sopena, lately transferred from the Ministry of War to a recruiting office in Badajoz for suspected Communism. Seventy-eight people were killed, many more wounded before the Government with a sigh of relief could declare the revolt well under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: State of Alarm | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...October Pennsylvania posted with the I. C. C. store-door tariffs for its entire system. So did Erie and Grand Trunk. Thus an entirely new factor was suddenly introduced into the highly-competitive trunk line territory. New York Central, Pennsylvania's traditional rival, led 16 other big eastern roads in a mighty howl of protest to the I. C. C. They failed to agree with Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury that store-door service was the only way to wean back l.c.l. freight now in the hands of truckers. They doubted that the service would be worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Store, Door, Uproar | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Asked his opinion on the Roosevelt administration, Pete issued the following statement: "Roosevelt, he good man. N. R. A. is good thing. But it hurt my woik. Last Saturday I tattoo elephant on man from Brockton. I am all finish except elephant's trunk. It is midnight. I have to quit, 'cause N. R. A. say I no can woik except 48 hours one week. I have leave elephant without no trunk. Man from Brockton, he won't pay me. He say elephant is walrus, not elephant. He get mad, I have throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete the Tattoo Expert on Scollay Square Does Mona Lisa--- Will Prick 'Veritas' For Six Bits | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...from Hickenlooper (she was the daughter of a San Antonio army officer). She felt it even more in the years when she was making her career and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. to whom she was married for twelve years, was making his. Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work. She became critic of the New York Evening Post only to be criticized for constantly presenting the musician's point of view. She took to teaching and her most talented pupils had trouble finding audiences. Cornelius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Laymen's Lessons | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...area of the spine in question to restore its unimpaired mobility and adjusted the spinal joints to their normal anatomical relationship. If massage was used it was as an adjunct as it might be used by a member of any other school of practice. Stimulating or "massaging" the nerve trunk near its exit from the spinal canal would affect organs associated with that nerve trunk through communicating branches but would not particularly affect a spinal structural defect such as Mr. Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1933 | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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