Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neville Chamberlain- and the then Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were major rivals to succeed Squire Baldwin, "Augur" made the direct charge that Mr. Chamberlain and not British public opinion was chiefly responsible for knifing the Hoare-Laval deal which might have made peace between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30). In the case of the present White Paper, upon which Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Eden jointly lavished their best efforts, "Augur" charged that this was last week in course of being knifed by Sir Samuel Hoare & friends as a blow at the Chancellor's chances of becoming Prime...
...Company had done better than it had in four years. What deficit there was the directors kept to themselves. Manager Johnson announced in advance that he felt it necessary to play safe at first, depend on a proven repertory in which Wagner, Verdi and Puccini would predominate (TIME, Dec. 23). He proved as good as his word. Rarely has there been such a conventional season so far as the operas were concerned...
First really big story for Colonial editors was the repeal of the Stamp Act, which they considered a punitive tax and a fetter to a free press. Still in rebellious mood, the Boston Weekly News-Letter on Dec. 2, 1773 boldly addressed its readers with a call to arms against the British. "FRIENDS! BRETHREN! COUNTRYMEN!" shouted the News-Letter's, front page. "That worst of plagues, the detested TEA, shipped for this Port by the East-India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour; the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares...
...lesser star explosions called novae are fairly common. About 40 have been detected since 1900. Nova Herculis, which blazed up in 1934, attracted much attention because it was only about 1,500 light-years from Earth (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). At its peak one of the twelve brightest stars in the sky, it offered superb opportunities for spectroscopic examination. Such novae throw off tremendously hot shells of gas, then subside irregularly and gradually to something like their former faintness. On the other hand some astronomers believe that supernovae, which fade rapidly, become "neutron stars"-small, dead, dense lumps of matter...
...have frequently written books about their fathers, but fathers rarely write books about their sons. A glaring modern exception was Author A. S. M. Hutchinson, who five years ago let himself go all swimmy in print over the nursery innocence of his infant boy (The Book of Simon, TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Last week Antony gave readers a better example of paternal pride. But Antony Knebworth will never reproach his noble author for saying fatherly things about him, because Antony is a posthumous biography. Antony was killed in an airplane crash in 1933, when...