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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed Ibrahim Khayru'llah to the U. S., spoke in churches, synagogs, D. A. R. meetings, visited the late William Jennings Bryan who pontificated: "The Baha'i movement is the only power able to revive the Islamic world." Abdu'1-Baha, however, saw the movement serving a wider world. For Jews it could fulfill Old Testament and Talmudic prophecies; for Christians the visions of the Apocalypse; for Mohammedans the Redeemer, Imam-Mahdi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baha'i | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Free Soul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). There is nothing on the stage or screen more impressive than a Barrymore indicating degenerate addiction to alcohol-a condition which causes the eyes to pop out and the nostrils to grow, though almost imperceptibly, wider. In this picture, it is Lionel's adroitness at such tricks which enables you to believe in incidents, which, however convincingly they be arranged, are basically somewhat ridiculous. He impersonates Stephen Ashe, a brilliant and bibulous lawyer whose daughter is so much influenced by his eccentric conduct that she sees nothing wrong in having an affair with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...Critic of Critics. Its announced aim was "to rid the city of such persons as Mayor Porter, Rev. Robert ["Fighting Bob"] Shuler, and show up other long hairs who try for fame or money by limiting personal liberty of Americans." In ensuing months the scope of the publication grew wider, its purpose less clearly defined. A typical article of last month's issue was "Guy McAfee, 'Capone' of L. A."-an expose of the purported vice-reign of Former Policeman McAfee. The magazine had a financial backer in portly, grey-haired Charles H. Crawford, a local political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Modern Los Angeles | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...recent study of these courses pronounces them a "very necessary part of our present educational system." Several colleges and universities are now be ginning to assist their alumni in continuing serious studies beyond college days. Radio in coming into use as an aid to the teacher in reaching still wider audience. The N. Y. Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/21/1931 | See Source »

Harvard and Yale students and local "townies" had fun last year photographing themselves in a new device called the PhotoReflex. Last week the same fun reached a wider public. The device was shown and operated in G. Fox & Co.'s department store in Hartford, Conn., and at Wanamaker's in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: PhotoReflex | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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