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...does the press of the world countenance so many lies?" asked Voroshilov, and Stalin said, "They want to make the world think the Soviets started this counter-revolutionary trial [TIME, Nov. 24] as a smoke-screen to hide our supposed starvation, unrest and what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Laughs! | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

When the expedition reaches Africa it has a hard time finding any land to colonize, at last settles on a strip of jungle-fringed seacoast. Meantime Harvey's sly companions spread unrest in the group, most of them leave. In the end it develops that the land is already a British possession. Defeated, cast off by all save a mulatto girl, Harvey realizes that the only reason she has stood by him is because she is not pure Negro but part white. Actor Wilson's role is played with earnestness and fervor, but the play has not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Declaring that "nearly half the globe is in a state of great unrest or revolution," the President praised the Kellogg-Briand and London naval treaties, promised "a preparedness for defense that is impregnable yet that contains no threat of aggression." Of the "practical preservation of peace," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover to The People | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...peaks, profound caverns, world's ends, experimental rocketeering. Last week at the New Jersey Newspaper Institute, the man whom Messrs. Ochs & Wiley sent to Antarctica to write daily rhapsodies about the Byrd expedition, eloquent Reporter Russell Owen, explained: "The newspaper in this age of uneconomic unhappiness and social unrest has discovered in the modern' explorer and aviator an excellent anodyne to our disappointing and humdrum life. Ephemeral their exploits may be, but for the time that they are chronicled I think we all get from them a feeling that this, after all, is not such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Old World | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...Poverty and unemployment are feeding the flames of political unrest! What has happened recently in South American Republics would seem to be inevitable in Cuba unless the influence of our government is exerted immediately to avert trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Mutt & Jeff; Queen Bee | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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