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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free State Government of bushy-haired President William Thomas Cosgrave, has gained hundreds of recruits. Little groups of solemn-eyed young men have been drilling seriously in clearings in the woods. First serious trouble came four months ago when Republicans and Orangemen rioted at Portadown, County Armagh (TIME, Aug. 24). That trouble spread. Just as in the bloody days of 1916, men were found dead in the ditches. On Armistice Day, Dublin was in a turmoil. Crowds surged up & down O'Connell Street, cheering, singing "Down King! Up Republican Army!" Free State officials were alive to the seriousness...
...good, but some German Fascists have talked of nationalizing private property and other measures smacking of Bolshevism (TIME, Aug. 25, 1930). Prophesying what would happen when he achieved power, Herr Hitler himself said little more than a year ago, "Heads will roll in the sand!" (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930). Last week he said: "It is ridiculous of the German parties now in power to accuse us of wishing to expropriate private property. . . . Ours is the only party that has not compromised with the Communists. Five thousand, five hundred members of our party have been killed or wounded in clashes with...
Engaged. Anita Grew, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Joseph Clark Grew, and Robert English, secretary of the U. S. legation in Bangkok, Siam. Able-bodied Miss Grew swam the Bosporus from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmora last August (TIME, Aug...
...court decision grew out of a long, bitter circulation fight between the Curtis-Martin Ledgers and Inquirer and Publisher J. David Stern's Record (TIME, May 5, 1930; Aug. 24). The Evening Ledger accused the Record (morning) of bringing its bulldog edition out before 7:30 a. m., cutting into late sales of the Ledger. Curtis-Martin Company refused to supply Ledgers and Inquirers to any newsboy who handled the Record. Backed by the Record, the newsboys formed a Newsboys Protective Association, got a court injunction compelling Curtis-Martin to cease its "discrimination...
...spoke of him in the same breath with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, II, who was scheduled for a recital a few nights later in spite of his father, who protested in court last year that Guardian Elizabeth Lackey was injuring the boy by permitting him to play in public (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930), now has custody of child...