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Word: berlins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been caught off-base with the rest of the world by the Hitler-Stalin deal, the sudden push for Poland. When President Moscicki replied to Mr. Roosevelt that Poland was willing to negotiate, Mr. Roosevelt forwarded that word to Herr Hitler, but without much hope of getting action. Berlin's unofficial comment was that Mr. Roosevelt's words had, as usual, arrived when Der Führer was asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off-Base | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Month ago, bristling with optimism about the chances of no war, Ham Fish sailed (as leader of the U. S. delegation of four Senators and 24 Representatives) for the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Oslo (TIME, Sept. 13, 1937). By the time he reached Berlin, he had to admit having talked with some people (including British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and French Premier Edouard Daladier) who thought there might be a war. "I myself," he said, "do not believe it, or my family would not be here." If invited to arbitrate the Danzig dispute, he said, he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All This War Talk | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...press; they were involved in a growing Polish-German conflict, but did not know how deeply; they were menaced by troop movements that had nothing to do with Hungarian conflicts. Result was that Hungarians high and low wanted to be Hungarians and nothing else. Whether the Axis ran from Berlin to Rome or from Berlin to Moscow, Hungarians were determined to close their ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Nationalism | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...sooner had the complaint been issued than Hearst Magazines Vice President Richard Emmett Berlin hit the deck. Promising to fight the case through the courts if necessary, he snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Embarrassed Housekeeper | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Radio call letters were first recognized in world broadcasting in the Treaty of Berlin in 1906, the first world radio treaty. In 1927, at the International Radio Convention in Washington, they were standardized, with various initial letters and combinations assigned to various nations. These were most recently brought up to date by the Cairo conference last year. Assigned to the U. S. are initial letters W, K and N (for naval communications). Germany has the letter D (for Deutschland), France F, Great Britain G, Italy I, Russia R and U, Japan J, China the letters XGA through XUZ. Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: X (for Experimental) | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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