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Typical of hundreds of anti-German boycott organizations which are ruining Nazi trade is Manhattan's Fur Trade Boycott Committee. Last week its secretary sent out a proud circular letter to members: "Gentlemen: Looking back at our efforts since the formation of the Fur Trade Boycott Committee in 1933...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Results | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

"Make yourself as feminine looking as you can. Go in for a lot of frills, furs, ruffles, and parasols. Always put everything you have into your work to put it over. . . . Don't take off your panties; it makes a girl's figure look prettier to have those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: No. 1 Stripper | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Since Soviet Russia imposes an export duty on furs, caviar, antiques and such (unless bought with foreign currency at Torgsin stores), Moscow acclaimed Istanbul's act of justice. "We know," said a Soviet customs official, ''that nearly all diplomats accredited to U. S. S. R. smuggle out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Coats & Caviar | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

HERE LIES tuberculous Isador Fisch in a New Jersey thicket in 1929. One of Hauptmann's oldest friends, he died in destitution last March in Leipzig. He and Hauptmann dealt in furs from time to time. Fisch's friends in The Bronx knew him as penniless. Hauptmann's story as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was born at Kamenz, Germany, served as a machine-gunner in a Saxon regiment during the War. In 1919 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for theft. Released in 1923, he was again arrested for theft, escaped while waiting trial. That same year he arrived in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 4U-13-41 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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