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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three German journalists, ordered by the British Home Office to leave London (TIME, Aug. 16), packed their bags last week and returned to the Fatherland. They were pursued by indignant shouts from the British press, for the Third Reich had retaliated by ordering intelligent, slightly pontifical Norman Ebbutt, for twelve years correspondent in Berlin of London's almost sacred Times, to be replaced by ''somebody less concerned with trivialities and more with facts." The British were shocked, regarded it as a blunder for the German Government to suggest that the dispatches of Norman Ebbutt, a distinguished journalist...
...month that Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, German unemployment had reached the total of 6,013,000, within 10% of its all-time high. On Aug. 1 there were only 563,000 registered unemployed in Germany-a drop of 86,000 during July...
Fortnight ago many Germans hoped that the postponement of the trial of Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, defiant Anti-Nazi Protestant pastor (TIME, Aug. 16), forecast the gradual abandonment of the Reich's campaign against all religious groups that run afoul the Nazi ideology...
Fortnight ago the National Safety Council announced that there were 17,200 deaths from motor accidents in the first six months of 1937-an alltime high (TIME, Aug. 16). Last week the American Automobile Association issued less vital but more controversial statistics when it announced that a survey of 10,000 persons between 20 and 40 years old in 35 U. S. cities had proved clearly that men are better drivers than women. Their average wheel grip measured 114 lb. against 63 lb. for women. They could withstand 58 units of light, whereas women could withstand only 55.1, and could...
...York Yankees' crack Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez, ardent believer in astrology, blamed Finsler's Comet (TIME, Aug. 2) for his failure to win a baseball game in a month. "On July IQ," said sad Pitcher Gomez, "I beat Cleveland for my 13th victory. Then Finsler's Comet began to edge into the picture and I knew right off I was cooked. Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together...