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Great crowds gathered in streets of San Juan, of Rio Piedras, of many a village and hamlet throughout Puerto Rico last week. They had but one purpose: to stop all motor traffic. They scattered tacks, nails, scraps of iron, pieces of glass over the pavements. Automobiles that did not disappear prudently into driveways were attacked by gangs who drove nails into their tires, smashed their windshields with bricks. Thus, from end to end of their island, Puerto Ricans struck against the high price of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: In Puerto Rico | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...Gandhi to embark on a hunger strike seven months ago. Nilla repented and for five months slept on a bed of bricks in penance. Two months ago she erupted once more, turned up wild-eyed and dusty at the home of an astonished Hindu in Muttra only to disappear again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: INDIA Runaway Disciple | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...fundamental policy must be that America and all her institutions must be lead by Nordic Christians according to the traditions of our forefathers. All evil influences opposing this natural American re-awakening must disappear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scum Oh, Boys! | 11/16/1933 | See Source »

...always see the beautiful sunset but is enveloped in a heavy fog a great number of days during the year. A prisoner with enough "guts'' could on one of these foggy nights plan his getaway, swim a short distance to a confederate in a boat and disappear under the blanket of fog, until he is caught again. Just because a man is a criminal does not signify he is a nitwit. They have just as much brains as the B.H.'s [Big Heads] and although they use them in a different way-i.e. against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...later the entire body becomes blue. Within a week or two after this drug has been injected the hard and lumpy swellings of leprosy undergo softening. Shortly afterward they begin to absorb. In a large percentage of cases in a period of a few months all lesions of leprosy disappear. . . . The blue color disappears about six weeks after the last of six injections has been taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blued Lepers, Pig Banks | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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