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...circular sent to newspapers and persons interested in the government flying course, the Committee on Militarism quoted from Congressional debates to show that the Civilian Aeronautics Authority is "civilian" in name only and is very closely allied with the Army and Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Claims Flying Course Not Army-Controlled | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

...China, where for a time he seemed to be close to the late Warlord Wu Pei-fu. About the time his son was executed in England for murdering a brewer's assistant, Trebitsch Lincoln became a Buddhist. He had his bullet pate shaved and branded with the twelve circular symbols of the Buddhist wheel of life, took the name of Chao Kung. He made a trip to Germany (where he was jailed for an old debt), later accumulated some white followers, kept on the move. In 1938, he turned up again in Shanghai, with a beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Again, Chao Kung | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...steamship brokers lately received a circular letter from one August Bolten, marine agent of Hamburg, Germany, calmly offering for charter or sale a dozen Nazi ships tied up in Western Hemisphere ports since war began. Herr Bolten said that these ships were available for "cash in U. S. dollars or other first-class neutral value." He found no quick takers in Manhattan, where idle U. S. tonnage was still seeking employment, and where everyone is well aware that the Allies will not recognize any shifts of nationality made by German ships after Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Price of Sanctuary | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he were way down in the cellar tending the furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...blue-carpeted, wide circular staircase to the main ballroom of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel paraded 99 of this season's debutantes, wealthy, wellborn, circumspect in public, acceptable to the Old Guard of Manhattan society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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