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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casual observer, France with 467.986 men under arms has the best army in the world today. It is not good enough for Minister Maginot. Frightened by the bellicose posturings of Mussolini, the blunt pre-election speeches of Germany's bad boy, Cabinet Minister Gottfried R. Treviranus (TiME, Aug. 25), he has been even more impressed by a little book written by that hyper-acute general, Hans von Seeckt, organizer of the German Reichswehr. It is General von Seeckt's premise that the Allies, in limiting Germany's huge conscript army to a professional volunteer force of 100,000 men supplemented...
Brazil, already troubled with a minor insurrection in the state of Parahyba (TIME, Aug. 11, 18), rang with rumors last week of an impending revolution in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Details were not forthcoming. The Brazilian Embassy in Washington, the Brazilian foreign minister, President Washington Luis united in an almost hysterical desire to quash reports. Said the President's secretary, Senhor Mendes Goncalves: "His Excellency authorizes me to state that the situation of Brazil is at present as it has been in recent times, of the most perfect economical, political and financial order...
...Nelson, husky Iowa swimmer: $10,000 and the 15-mi. Canadian National Exhibition Marathon in the warm waters of Lake Ontario from a field of 173 contestants. Time: 7 hr. 43 min. 36 sec. Anne Benoit, only woman entrant, winner of last month's unhealthy Around-Manhattan swim (TIME, Aug. 4), fell far behind, was finally fished...
...Sued. On Aug. 28, Constance Collier, 50, British actress, for $100,000; and on Aug. 29, Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, 43, famed British-born cartoonist ("The Better 'Ole," "Old Bill"); for divorce; both by Mrs. Bruce Bairnsfather. Charges: Miss Collier alienated Bairnsfather's affections; Bairnsfather wrote a play with Miss Collier, became intimate...
Birthday. Martin Vogel, Manhattan lawyer, onetime (1913-20) Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. in charge of the New York Subtreasury, author of Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on Liberty Loan publicity campaigns; in Le Touquet, France. Date: Aug. 29. Age: 52. Cele- bration: a dinner party in Algy's Bar at which Edward of Wales danced first with Mrs. Vogel. Another guest: Author Michael Arlen (ne Dikran Kouyoumdjian...