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...these efforts to persuade the World Jewish Conference to be a trifle discreet were utterly wasted last week. The tub-thumpers in Geneva projected themselves into world headlines with a ringing re- affirmation of Jewish boycott efforts against Germany, then proceeded to skate extremely near to attempting to form a Super-Government of World Jewry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Jewish Belgium | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Because he gets around the world much more than other Bolshevik statesmen, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, smart, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar, has been tub-thumping for years in highest Moscow circles for some move to put a better face on the tyranny of ruling 147,000,000 Russians by means of a secret police of unlimited terroristic power. Last week Comrade Litvinoff got his way and dispatches from Moscow led U. S. headline-writers to splash out with SOVIET ABOLISHES ITS SECRET POLICE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: New Spots, Old Skin | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...Metropolitan singers. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer as Saint-Saens' Dalila gesticulated as if she were suspended from invisible gymnasium rings, sang in a pleasantly intimate voice. Tenor Paul Althouse was Samson. Conducting was Russian-born Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who between acts bathed in a tin tub he brought with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Music | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...Bertillioned," beaten sneered at, threatened with sexual assault, witnessing the beating to death of some poor Jew before her cell there, lost her voice from fright, scared by a huge police dog being sicked onto her, kept from a toilet all the 28 hours, flung into a filthy bath tub where the outlet was plugged up from vomit broken teeth and the hair of other victims, and on top of it all, caught pleurisy, from which she nearly died in Brussels, and was fiat on her back for two months, and is still badly injured from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Frank Pease, a Violent Railer Against Hanfstaengl Can't Be Located | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

...bury him face down with an oak stake through his heart while a priest reads the Lord's Prayer backward. Devoutly French politicians wished it were as easy to keep Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky in his grave. On the boulevards Alexandre Stavisky, in wax, shared honors with the original tub in which Marat was stabbed, star exhibits in the venerable Musee Grevin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Vampire on the Tracks | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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