Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep British ships within striking distance of League-defying Italy but not one farthing to put British ships within range of League-defying Germany. Yet it was Mr. Baldwin who not two years ago solemnly declared that, for defensive purposes, Britain's frontier is now the Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934). In all parts of Germany correspondents reported Nazis spontaneously boasting with broad grins: "Well we have crossed the 'British frontier' of Herr Baldwin - the Rhine...
House of Representatives Washington, D. C. TIME erred. In addition to his 5-min. social Security Speech on the Floor last April, Illinois' Representative Mitchell, only Negro in Congress, also had, in the Congressional Record for Aug. 13 extended remarks on TVA, the New Deal and the Negro.-ED. Wisconsin's Unpleasantness Sirs: Unworthy of TIME was the statement under Wisconsin Dismissals" (TIME, Feb. 24) that ''local dailies" were "strongly pro-Spears, because, Meanwell protagonists claim, Spears had previously promised their two sport columnists university employment if he obtained the 1934 appointment as athletic director...
When Brass clashed out last week with reminders of the incontestable violations committed in the presence of Stalin himself when overthrow of U. S. Capitalist institutions was urged in Moscow by U. S. Communists Browder and Darcy (TIME, Aug. 12), the reply of Steel was for once just a bit embarrassed and evasive...
...fact that Communists and Socialists had pooled their votes, their voices and their actions in Spain. This was in accordance with the new "united front policy" adopted last year in Moscow by the Comintern or United Communist Parties of the World, on the shrewd instruction of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Aug. 5 et seq.). Intimidation, not votes, was the force which actually opened Spain's jails last week and spewed out 30,000 "politicals...
...Aug. 25, 1927 a slim, wide-mouthed young man named Paul Redfern took off from Brunswick, Ga. to fly to Brazil. Some 27 hours later Pilot Redfern's single-motored monoplane swooped down over the Norwegian freighter Christian Krohg 200 miles out of La Guaira, Venezuela. Getting his bearings, Redfern dashed on toward South America, where he was later reported over the Orinoco Delta. Then he vanished...