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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin last week Premier Göring had so stamped his dominance upon the capital that he felt safe in ordering disbanded on Aug. 15 the "auxiliary Prussian police" enrolled from Nazi Storm Troops six months ago and hotly protested in Geneva by France and her allies as "disguised soldiers violating the Treaty of Versailles." How many such troops or police there may have been is Premier Göring's secret. He said 30,000 last week, but protest estimates have always been at least...
...greatest shipping lines, North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American, were abruptly lumped together under Chancellor Adolf Hitler's "Maritime Adviser" Herr Emil Helfferich, the ousted former board chairmen of both lines revealed that "dissatisfaction in the outside world toward Germany" had sharply reduced their business (TIME, Aug. 1). Last week the German Government fought back against this blight on German shipping caused by the distaste of many travelers for anything remotely connected with Hitlerism...
...police squads riding around in cars. "The Tyrant," paunchy, pock-faced President Gerardo Machado y Morales, had proclaimed "a state of war" in his effort to break his countrymen's general strike against his regime. It had spread throughout the island in all businesses and professions (TIME, Aug. 14). Food was hard to get. The capital was more completely paralyzed every day as fewer and fewer shopkeepers opened their doors. The dreaded Porra, President Machado's secret terror squads, odious for their savage murders, boasted of the massacres early in the week when hundreds of joyous citizens, shouting...
Andrew William Mellon, indignant at an unflattering book about his career (TIME, Aug. 14), issued a tart statement to the Press: "I have tried to read the so-called biography of myself entitled Mellon's Millions. It attributes to me and to other members of my family a fortune of such fantastic and imaginary proportions as to be senseless...
Indignant snorts on behalf of two amateur astronomers went up in London and in Potsdam as the ringed planet Saturn last week placidly continued to whirl in & out of Earthling's sight the great spot which last fortnight erupted on its protuberant belly (TIME, Aug. 14). Washington's Naval Observatory, their snorts made it appear, had not kept the spot under observation for a seemly length of time after Astronomer John Edwin Willis sighted it. The British Astronomical Association said that one Will Hay, music-hall comedian and amateur stargazer, had spotted the spot 26 hours before Astronomer...