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...real "forgotten man" in the U. S. pension muck is the actually disabled veteran who is often too self-respecting to join the scramble for aid. Pointing indignantly to European pension systems, Authoress Mayo asks: "Did they, too, profane the name of their War-disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad ten years after...
Tallest in the World. Near Dictator Stalin as he talked was Dictator Lenin's death mask in a glass case and opposite him a life-size portrait of "Ilyich1'- orating to proletarians. Near the death mask hung an architect's drawing of the Palace of the Soviets, most grandiose project to be attempted under Russia's present Second Five-Year Plan. Though young Hector 0. Hamilton, a British architect of East Orange, N. J., won $2,000 with his design for the Palace of Soviets Dictator Stalin later scrapped Mr. Hamilton's plan...
...boycott of German goods and services, Lawyer Untermyer is acting not as lawyer, not as U. S. citizen, not as religionist, but as a Jew outraged by persecutions of fellow Jews. Chancellor Hitler's pogroms are conducted not on religious grounds but on racial grounds (as a mask for underlying economic reasons). In labeling Lawyer Untermyer "Jew" in contrast to "German" for Ambassador Luther, TIME was strictly, significantly accurate. TIME did not thereby intend affront to Jewish sensibilities or express sympathy with the Nazi cause...
...Russian army air service, which lately sent stratonauts higher than any had flown before (TIME. Oct. 9), last week dropped a flyer farther than any man had ever dropped. The man dropped was a pilot named Victor Evceyef. Swaddled in heavy clothes with an oxygen mask over his face and a parachute over his stern, Evceyef went up with a comrade from Moscow Airdrome. Mile after mile the plane climbed, into atmosphere -34° F. At 4½ mi. Pilot Evceyef jumped. Instead of opening his 'chute, he plummeted for more than two minutes until he was only...
...gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish Scimitar; and over there, in a glass case, is a death mask of Oliver Cromwell, Upstairs are the proud portraits of Cromwell and the collection of tools. In some dark closet hangs the Frock Coat, which the Professor will don each Sunday teatime...