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...have been," wrote Maryland's one-time Democratic Senator William Cabell Bruce, 76, to Governor Landon, "bitterly disappointed in Mr. Roosevelt as an incumbent in the Presidential office, and I am deeply gratified by the nomination of yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Landon Week | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Everyone, including Mr. Sato, agreed that of course the Lausanne Treaty is to be torn up. Elected chairman of the Conference was Stanley Melbourne Bruce, one of the gallant Australians whom the Turks trounced at Gallipoli. Handsome Mr. Bruce, now High Commissioner of Australia in London, was gravely wounded during the slaughter of his countrymen by the Turks. Last week he asked Dr. Aras to please be considerate about the graves of Australian War dead in excavating for Dardanelles fortifications. This the swarthy, squint-eyed little Turk politely promised, patting the stalwart, pink-cheeked Australian reassuringly on the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rearmament Conference | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...FULNESS of TIME-Gertrude Capen Whitney - Bruce Humphries ($2.50). Adventures of a great-souled Georgia spinster among a group of Pennsylvania Quakers caught in the toils of a mystical mystery. A string of crystal beads and a seeress play important, if incomprehensible, parts in this fictionized revelation of Truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...until the end of the film does the dreamy Runyon touch appear. On Christmas Eve in a manger near Bethlehem, Pa., the amiable criminal, who happens to be an ex-doctor (Raymond Walburn), delivers the young wife of a baby while the hard-boiled member of the gang (Bruce Cabot) meltingly gives up the stolen bonds to get her husband out of prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...Author of a onetime best-seller on Jesus Christ (The Man Nobody Knows), Adman Bruce Barton was asked fortnight ago to see if he could sell the G. 0. P. to the U. S. public. Though Adman Barton has not definitely accepted the National Republican Committee's invitation, he got in some practice last week at a Chicago meeting of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. Suggesting that businessmen get busy in the politicians' own backyard, he took off his hat, as one master salesman to another, to Franklin D. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Downtown | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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