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...iron crib slung underneath. In the crib were 350 lb. of dynamite and TNT, wired to the handbrake and the magneto. Its makers planned to abandon it in front of Havana's police headquarters. When police released the handbrake to drive it away, the huge charge would blow police and headquarters to scraps. The three riggers were whisked off to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: A Few Children | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...quandary which her two admirers try as darkly as possible to solve. First Bogard takes Claude on a bombing trip in his plane, rather hoping that he will be shot. Claude and Ronnie return the courtesy by inviting Bogard to come with them on an expedition to blow up a German cruiser in Kiel. On this escapade, Claude gets shot blind; Diana, almost prepared to let him down at last, has to do the right thing, stay with him. Bogard does the right thing also; he volunteers for a suicide assignment. There is only one Right Thing left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

Professor Williams is undoubtedly not only an authority of world reputation and an excellent lecturer, but a sympathetic teacher. There is, however, the chance that he may be called away next year. Although his absence would be a serious blow to the course, indication is that the course would still be in capable hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleventh Annual Crimson Confidential Guide Continued With Candid Reviews of Popular Economics Courses | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

Three weeks ago Long Island churchmen obtained Col. Todd's permission to hold Long Island's first Easter dawn service on a wide clearing in the hills of "The Priory." They arranged for four trumpeters to blow sweetly at dawn's arrival, a chorus of 200 to sing "The Messiah" clergymen from Huntington, Brooklyn and Manhattan to speak. Congregations would come by the busload. The Long Island R. R. would put on a "Sunrise Special." After the service, worshippers would file through Col. Todd's studio to behold his blond Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Easter Dawn | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Give us TIME to blow the man down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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