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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peaches, Peonies. Britain's dirigible R-100 ended her 13-day visit to Canada last week (TIME, Aug. 11), sailed for home with a new tear in her fabric, one of her six motors disabled as the result of a side-flight over Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara, and with nine English and Canadian news correspondents aboard. Freight and express revenues estimated at $500,000 had to be rejected in accordance with Air Ministry orders. Only excess cargo was a bunch of peonies for King George from Viscount Willingdon, governor-general; and a box of Canadian peaches for the Prince...
Guerrilla warfare between British garrisons on the northwest frontier and bellicose Pathan tribesmen, begun when a band of Afridi ambuscaded a party of Indian cavalry in the orchards outside Peshawar (TIME, Aug. 18), continued last week. Although Royal Air Force bombers peppered the tribesmen with as many as 50 tons of bombs in a single day, Pesha- war continued surrounded by hostile besiegers. Some observers began to doubt the efficacy of the R. A. F.'s aerial attack. One rumor was that the Afridi left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over...
...Germain treaties, 2) abandonment of reparations payments, 3) dissolution of the Reichswehr (volunteer army) and organization of a strong conscripted German army, 4) restoration of all colonies, 5) socialization of all basic industry, 6) disfranchisement of all Jews, 7) expulsion of all non-Germans who have immigrated since Aug. 2, 1914 If such an extraordinary program should win the Fascists a large block of seats in the Reichstag old President Paul von Hindenburg would have an extremely ticklish time organizing his government. To gain Hitler's support, Chancellor Heinrich Briining would doubtless be forced to turn over the minister...
...Heretofore, verbal "gentlemen's agreements'' have been customary. Often they have led to law suits such as Manhattan Portrait Painters Gallery, Inc. v. Howard Chandler Christy (TIME, Aug...
Left. By the late James Duval Phelan (died Aug. 7), California Democrat, one-time (1897-1902) Mayor of San Francisco, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator; upwards of $10,000,000. Bequests: to the James Duval Phelan Foundation and other San Francisco institutions, $4,000,000; to Gertrude Atherton, "California's great authoress," $20,000, and $5,000 each to her four children and grandchildren; to Helen Newington Wills Moody, $20,000 and valuable works of art "in appreciation of her winning the tennis championship for California"; to many a friend in the U. S., South America and England...