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...workers are a keystone would never dream of bartering its oil with dictatorships. However, none of the delegates from the 13 Central and South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ramón González Peña, who has personally fought fascism in the Asturias by lighting sticks of dynamite from the end of his cigar and hurling them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Capricorn to Cancer | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Last week, Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs, Theatrical Producer Lee Shubert and Jai-Alai Promoter Richard Berenson pooled their backgrounds and bank accounts to introduce the Cuban national game to Broadway. With all the éclat of a Hollywood première, Promoters Jacobs, Shubert & Berenson transformed the famed old Hippodrome into a jai-alai fronton (at a cost of $100,000), exhibited 30 of the world's top-notch jai-alaiers in a demonstration of what has been called the "fastest game in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Merry Festival | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

PROKOFIEFF: LIEUTENANT KITE SUITE (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 6 sides). To cover up a Tsar's error, obsequious Russian courtiers invented a hypothetical army officer named Kije. The nonexistent lieutenant outlived his inventors, became the subject of a satirical Soviet film seen in Manhattan in 1934. Composer Prokofieff's music, written to accompany the film, is clever, brilliantly orchestrated. The Bostonians do a scintillating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...pacifist enough for him, left London this week on another whirlwind European tour, this time of 17 days. Two years ago he talked with President Roosevelt, last year with Dictators Mussolini and Hitler; this time Mr. Lansbury has been promised audiences by Hungarian Regent Admiral Horthy, Bulgarian Tsar Boris, Rumanian King Carol, Yugoslav Regent Prince Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Supermen | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...that Bulgaria has openly rearmed, the realm of Tsar Boris too may expect to benefit from the "loans" which Britain and France are so lavishly making to assure that the Balkan States will stand with Democracy (TIME, July 25). Paris dispatches this week announced that a consortium of French banks are "studying" the question of lending Bulgaria three hundred million francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Joy-Bombs | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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