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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Lieutenant Billow's testimony (he also said no British warship had, to his knowledge, been sunk by a Nazi bombing plane) was the more impressive when corroborated by no less a warrior than First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. For four weeks an Admiralty commission had chewed its cud over Royal Oak's sinking in Scapa Flow. Last week Churchill stood up, with even more than his usual show of nimble-wittedness, and admitted for himself and the Admiralty that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen and Buülow, respectively, who jumped off from between Aachen and Trier. Hausen's objective before swinging south was near Namur on the Meuse in Belgium. Billow's course pointed for Maubeuge on the French frontier after cracking through the forts at Liége in conjunction with the First Army. That Army, mobilized north of Aachen and led in under the Limburg tip of The Netherlands by General Alexander von Kluck, was, after passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Side Door | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...white race!" crowed Das Schwarze Korps, newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's black-jacketed Special Guard last week. By order of Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, all editors in the Fatherland were barred from ever printing another sports article by Boxing Expert Arthur Billow, who had predicted in Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt that Negro Joe Louis would whip the German fisticuffer in Manhattan. As the dirigible Hindenburg neared Frankfurt with Schmeling aboard, Dr. Goebbels rushed the pugilist's mother and his wife, German Cinemactress Anny Ondra, to meet him in a Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Schmeling Reward | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Bernhard Wilhelm von Billow, 51. since 1930 German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, nephew and namesake of the pre-War Chancellor; of a lung inflammation; in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...frolicsome, long-haired youths had been banished; and there was the immediate prospect that the terrifying waves which were dashing against the sides of the tank might be shortly stilled. Lane markers, similar to those used in the Intercollegiate here last year, are calculated to subdue the mightiest billow that the most energetic candidate could hope to stir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

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