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...found Mrs. Krynine, dressed in blue cotton and canvas shoes, in a squalid, one-room, fourth-story Moscow flat. She said: "I am 48 and I want to live, but only if I can be with my son and husband." Professor Krynine said the Herald Tribune interview was the longest communication he had had from her in several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Distinguished Visitors | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...them over the unbroken forests of Siberia and the wilderness from Nome to Edmonton, Canada, and then they might need time to spare. ... In a little more than two hours they were off again, with a wave of the hand, into that part of the East where miles are longest and life is scarcest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Two Men in a Hurry | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...last week, after a criminal trial which lasted three months-the longest in the history of New York county-justice was meted out to the other four. All save Pollock, on whom the jury could not agree, were found guilty, liable to seven years in prison, $1,000 fine. They were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ring-Around- A-Rosy | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...Biggest, longest, most exciting debate of the week was that on Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin's motion censuring the Labor Government for failure to meet the unemployment crisis. In a House hushed and tense, the Prime Minister warned that if this motion passed, he would at once advise George V to dissolve Parliament and order a general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Dutch Colonial administration, and to foster trade, the Navy Department dropped the subject. But to millions of brown & yellow natives, to thousands of white residents in the East Indies, the visit of the Big White Governor & children was news, fun, sufficient excuse for brief but lavish festivities. The longest while that the Davises remained in any one place up to last weekend, was 92 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Governor General's Junket | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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