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Two years ago the question "Who is George Dimitroff?" could have been answered with enthusiasm only by his old mother. Then German police arrested Bulgarian Dimitroff in their frantic efforts to arrest almost anyone except the Nazis who everyone believes set fire to the Reichstag (TIME. March 6, 1933. et...
1) Franklin Roosevelt had given something more than tacit consent to the retirement of Madam Secretary Perkins to a back seat in labor affairs. While the Labor Bill was in the making Mme Perkins fought to have its execution vested in her department rather than in an independent Labor Board...
Fortunately for him, M. Deibler's accommodations had been reserved in advance, for there was not a room to be had in Bastia. The execution at which he was to officiate was that of the most notorious, best publicized bandit in Corsica, crazed, grey-haired Andre Spada (TIME, March...
Most observers now recognize the fallacy in the appointment of Dr. Worcester as director of the Hygiene Department. Despite the excellent reputation which years of service had given him, the position demanded a younger man whose youth and vitality would ensure vigorous execution of the office. In Dr. Worcester Harvard...
As far back as the Crimean and Japanese Wars the government had lost prestige at home and abroad, but demands for reform were met with more systematic repression, until by 1917 the Tsar could scarcely find support outside the ranks of the nobility. The livest sections of Author Chamberlin'...