Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high command seems convinced that while the Eastern masses, receiving a comparatively piddling dole, can be easily won from the New Deal next year, the agricultural West, made happy with big AAA checks, can be captured only by a strong Western farmers' candidate. Mr. Landon is certainly a Westerner. And while his not inconsiderable fortune has been made as an independent oil producer, he owns half interest in a 7,360-acre farm near Chautauqua. Governor Landon has other hallmarks of eligibility. After a series of ups & downs, he seems to have his state...
Definitely Ethiopia cannot be conquered without Italian thrusts up from the south through Harar and in from the east, complementing the thrust down from the north which last week won Aduwa (see p. 19). With 150,000 Ethiopian troops under his command, Old Eagle Beak must try to defend Ethiopia's only railway. To Correspondent Stallings, after boasting through an old soldier's repertoire of battles, Wehib Pasha finally worked up to 1935 and boomed: "The English might conquer Ethiopia or even the French, never the Italians! "It is an axiom that even water will follow the English...
...such lack of decision and a thousand other bits of Chinese guile there has been enough to keep Japan preoccupied all summer, especially since a crisis was germinating simultaneously in the Japanese fighting service's own high command at Tokyo. This crisis crystallized in the assassination of one of mild Japanese War Minister Senjuro Hayashi's senior general staff officers (TIME, Aug. 26) and the emergence of new and more militant War Minister Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Last week the Tokyo sabre-rattlers were ready to give China what it takes to make an obstreperous wife or nation behave...
Most of them were newspaper career-men, highly competent, bent solely on getting the news, getting it right, getting it first. Also conspicuously on hand was an aggregation of what newspapermen call Trained Seals-cityroom slang for big-time correspondents who command huge salaries, get their names in headlines, seek color rather than fact...
Died, William A. Brady Jr., 35, son of the Manhattan theatrical producer and of Actress Grace George, half-brother of Actress Alice Brady, husband of Actress Katharine Alexander, onetime partner of Producer Dwight Deere Wiman, with whom he staged The Road to Rome, The Command To Love, The Little Show; mysteriously in a borrowed bungalow which burned to the ground; near Colts Neck, N. J. Burned away except for the torso and one leg, the body was found in the smoking ruins near a melted half-pint flask, an automatic pistol with five cartridges in the magazine exploded, apparently...