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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loew's State and Orpheum have bullet-jawed Edward G. Robinson in "I Am the Law", one of a series of current pictures revolving about the career of Prosecutor Thomas Dewey. Relief of a sort to the rat-tat-tat of the Robinson film is provided by Joe E. Brown in the co-feature, "The Gladiator", which also includes Main Mountain Dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

Pilot Woods calculated his landing perfectly. The only thing he did not calculate correctly was the intention of the Japanese. The Japanese dived again & again, spraying the downed plane with machine-gun bullets. The transport's crew and passengers went overboard into the river and the Japanese planes fired on them in the water, continuing the work of extermination. Pilot Woods was carried away by a swift current and reached shore in safety. Radio Operator Joe Loh and a passenger, Chinese Civil Servant C. N. Lou, with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: By Mistake | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...Senator Tydings, was kicked out of office in apparent reprisal for his support of Senator Tydings. Last week a thoroughgoing purge of other Tydings friends on the Federal payrolls in Maryland was in full sway. Past Postmaster Coy drove his car out to the Susquehanna River bank, put a bullet through his brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Purge's Progress | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...hoping the storm will blow past. The remainder have either joined Germany's innumerable pagan cults or, as "German Christians." have sought to purge Christianity of its inconvenient elements. Purgers-in-chief have been the German Christian Bishop of Bremen, Dr. Heinz Weidemann, and Ludwig Miiller, the bullet-pated army chaplain whom Hitler appointed Reichsbischof in 1933, supplanted in 1935. Both prelates have sought to find a pure, Nazified essence of German Christianity in the New Testament-the Old Testament being, to Nazis, a bad job, hopelessly full of Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Germanised Gospels | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Paraffin tests last week determined that 13 Nationalistas fired the fusillade-65 to 80 shots-which slew two persons, wounded 32, at last fortnight's Occupation Day in Ponce. Detective Juan Colon shielded Governor Winship's body with his own, but one bullet ripped the Governor's trouser leg. For once U. S. colonial administration rose to the British standard: The Governor snorted: "What damn poor shots they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Senior Shellback | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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