Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recovery from 1933, commodities kept pace with business revival until the index hit 88.3 in April 1937 (v. 59.6 in 1933). Then, after Franklin Roosevelt remarked that certain prices were rising too fast, commodities hit the skids of Depression II. Since last summer when the industrial and financial tide turned again, commodities have kept right on sagging...
...White Russian officers, confronted General Skobline with General de Miller's note. The officers were reminded that the White Russian court had previously acquitted Skobline of charges that he was on the Soviet payroll and had had a hand in the abduction of General Alexander Paul Koutiepoff (TIME, April 14, 1930). Skobline denied any knowledge of the de Miller affair and walked out of the meeting. He was never seen again...
...Back in April 1937, a peasant named Jean Gonon was doing his spring plowing on a farm not far from Lyon, when he uncovered a figure of Venus. Features and limbs were damaged, but otherwise the figure, a gentle drape about its hips, was in beautiful shape. Officials examined it, pronounced it authentic Greek, and Farmer Gonon made money exhibiting...
Premier Edouard Daladier was put in power last April by the votes of the Popular Front (his own Radical Socialists, Socialists, Communists). The Premier's Popular Front support cracked after Munich. After he broke last fortnight's general strike, it washed out. Nevertheless, Edouard Daladier remained Premier of France. With Socialists and Communists voting solidly against him, with 28 members of his own party and a few others abstaining, but with almost the whole Right coming to his aid in the Chamber of Deputies, Premier Daladier won a respectable vote of confidence: 315 for, 241 against...
...weary after eight counteroffensives to retake the Ebro River salient. Generalissimo Franco is determined to throw everything he has into one Big Push before Britain's Prime Minister meets Premier Mussolini at Rome early in January. A Franco success, such as his smash-through to the Mediterranean last April, would give II Duce a good talking point on which to demand belligerent rights for the Insurgents from Mr. Chamberlain...