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By this time somebody had sent for the Marines and volunteer constables were being hastily armed with pistols. The mob swept on out of town, barricaded the road with uprooted telephone poles, tore down the bridge at Camden Park and separated the Leeward and Windward sides of the island. Grocery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ST. VINCENT: Marine Job | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

The story is that the Babylonians had hemmed in the beleaguered city with a ring of uprooted olive trees, set them afire. Leader Starkey found a circle of charred stones and wood ash extending clear around the city. In the ashes were innumerable olive pits.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

The Armenians were a harmless folk but they were an alien body within the Turkish body politic and when the years of starvation and oppression following 1870 failed to wipe them out the Turkish government resolved to utilize its strength as an ally of the Central Powers and to eliminate...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/15/1935 | See Source »

That historic event was foreshadowed last spring when the venerable Committee on Publicity was uprooted and a onetime managing editor of the Wall Street Journal was made a member. Not until last week, however, did the Governors hire a pressagent. He was Joseph Stagg Lawrence, 38, author, economist and an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Life Among the Brokers | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

This campaign was launched, according to Dr. Schmitt, because so many German firms are infected with "export fatigue." They have weakened in their efforts to push their sales in foreign markets where depreciated currencies have made ruling prices low in terms of gold or of the German mark. Cried Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hand-to-Mouth | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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