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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Hoover, irked at the needling of his plan-embargo of only "offensive weapons"-by military experts (who called it "impractical"), went on the air to outline more fully his reasons. Lately Mr. Hoover has been the unpublicized guest of honor at a series of unpublicized but very serious little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Hounds in Cry | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

First hint that something unpleasant was a-brewing for Browder & Co. came via the Republican National Committee's alert publicity man, Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Curious Coincidence | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Shaggy-haired, 69-year-old Bogeyman Bigelow was a Congregational minister who, after taking over a Cincinnati church in 1896, leased it to a burlesque house, later founded his own "People's Church." In 1917 he was horsewhipped for pacifist preachings. Cincinnati knows him chiefly as a chameleon of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Bogeyman | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Jammed aboard the U. S. liner President Harding when she cleared from Le Verdon, near Bordeaux, France on Oct.11 were 597 passengers (157 more than her capacity), 330 of them U. S. citizens. West of Ireland, Captain James E. Roberts turned to rescue the French tanker W. Emile Miguet, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Tempest | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

> Twelve GOP Senators who have not even been mentioned as 1940 Presidential possibilities banded together as the Republican Senatorial Neutrality Club. Their platform: to avoid entangling alliances with six GOP-Hopefuls, to accept any and all entertainment offered by the six Hopefuls.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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