Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To head off potential flying lenses, cannon and tanks, Secretary of War Dern last week announced organization of a General Headquarters Air Force-an air-mada of 1,000 bombing, pursuit and attack planes in five wings, concentrated on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in the Middle West. Recommended...
Secretary Dern's order relieved General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps, from command of practically the entire combat air force, restricting his command in future to personnel training and aircraft procurement. Directly in control of the new combat force will be General Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief...
To Mrs. Sullivan, wife of the arch-Republican pundit-journalist, thanks for correctly identifying Edward of Wales' s good friend. Baltimore-born, Mrs. Simpson was named for her father, Wallis Warfield whose brother Solomon Davies was long president of Seaboard Air Line. Her mother, the late Alice Montague Warfield...
¶ Sixty members of the Berlin diplomatic corps went to the first reception at the Presidential Palace since Adolf Hitler assumed his new top-dog role of Realmleader after the death of President von Hindenburg (TIME, Aug. 13).
No distraction of this sort was offered last week. The Apostolic Nuncio, Monsignor Cesare Orsenigo, as Dean of the Corps, conveyed its formal greetings in French, though he can speak German. The Realmleader, who speaks only German, stoutly replied, "Our relations with other nations shall be determined by the spirit...