Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true import was severe, that the U. S. would now follow Britain's gesture of appeasement with one of menace. Even as the U. S. fleet was moved back to the Pacific at a moment when Britain needed all her available sea power in European waters (TIME, April 24), so now the U. S., as Britain backed up to ease tension in China, stepped forward threatening a thrust that would open Japan's military jugular if delivered...
...April began with a report that Moscow was suspicious, and ended with the news that Britain was cautious...
Last week 66-year-old Chairman McNinch, ill since April with a stomach ailment, resigned. As he often does in such cases, Franklin Roosevelt published their exchange of letters, praised Frank McNinch's work. Broadcasting-Broadcast Advertising, radio's authoritative trade journal, observed: "He certainly was not lacking in courage, and no one questions his sincerity, though many in radio have not seen eye to eye with him on the majority of his proposed 'reforms.' But ... his selection of William J. Dempsey as general counsel has proved a boon to the efficiency...
...Last April, at the age of 77, Dr. William James Mayo, elder of the Rochester (Minn.) Clinic's famed Mayo brothers, went under the knife for an ailment he had often treated: perforating gastric ulcer. For a while "Dr. Will" rallied, but all the magnificent resources of the Mayo Clinic failed to save his old, wornout body. Last week Dr. Will died. He had survived his brother, Dr. Charlie, his lifelong friend and partner, by only two months. Still practicing in Rochester is the last of the Mayos, Dr. Charlie's son, 41-year-old Dr. Charles William...
...concludes, "what preoccupations can there be other than the desire to make money, and more money, and to keep it . . . with no thought for the world that crowds steadily in upon this would-be tight little island." He was in Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best of my knowledge and belief, no Jew who has escaped from the hell of life in Germany owes anything whatsoever to this meeting...