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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sept 17, 1939, was another dark day for British sea power. Surprisingly lost that day was the aircraft carrier Courageous. Last week an even more astonishing disaster occurred. The Admiralty sent an electric thrill of horror through the nation by tersely announcing, with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak has been sunk, it is believed by U-boat action." Royal Oak* was a battleship of 29,150 tons, built in 1914, and her loss reduced from 15 to 14 the number of Britain's capital ships. The time and place of the sinking were not officially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: How Did It Happen? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...confused with the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which the Germans claim to have "destroyed" (TIME, Oct. 9) and which the British say is safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: How Did It Happen? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

NcNicol was running all the climax plays Saturday, plays that the team knew best and on those he did himself proud, while Loring was handling the 6 series, reverses, that aren't so smooth yet. Loring looks like a capable ball carrier, and though his passing may not measure up to McNicol's, he's to be watched as a runner...

Author: By John W. Saliantins, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

This son of a mail-carrier father, who went off to college with a $5 bill in his pocket, who sings There's a Gold Mine in the Sky and Mother Machree on campaign platforms, would have been jobless on Dec. 12, if he had not inherited Senator Logan's seat. No Kentucky Governor may succeed himself. But Chandler's aide, Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson, Democratic nominee for the Governorship in the Nov. 7 elections, is a 20-to-1 choice over Republican Nominee King Swope. So Chandler had no unemployment problem, for he could resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Happy Man | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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