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Fourteen years ago a young Brazilian, Virgilino Ferreira da Silva, persuaded the trusting Assembly of the State of Pernambuco to make him an honorary captain in its constabulary so that he might avenge his father who had been murdered in Pernambuco's hinterland. The Assembly made a mistake.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Continued Story | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Though ranked among the Big Four, Old Gold was always a peewee in comparison. Whether the new member of the Big Four can do better, can overtake the 38-45,000,000,000 sales of each of the big three, the tobacco industry waits to see. With June sales totting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

It is not until the second half of the showing that the plot really unfolds, and gives free play to the intrigues of Ahmed, the petulant beauty of the Princess Kuhachin, and the trusting, almost child-like simplicity of the great Kublai Khan. Basil Rathbone, as the scheming minister of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Inspiring loyalty in all, he helped to make the Student Council a dignified representative of college opinion. For the first time young sinners went to him trusting instead of fearing, and the Dean's office became less a death cell and more a source of friendly counsel. He clasped the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR MEMORY'S SAKE | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Edgar Snow left Soviet China two months before Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped, three months before the Communists and the Generalissimo began their elaborate hatchet-burying in preparing to fight Japan. He prophesies flatly that the Communist-Kuomintang alliance "concludes an epoch of revolutionary warfare and begins a new era...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Reds | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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