Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor conferred with his onetime Minister to Paris, modest General Tecle Hawariate, who, it was announced will be commander of Ethiopian troops in the North. The announcement promptly bred more rumors that Ras Seyoum, northern commander, had been killed in the aerial bombardment of Mai Mescic fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 2). Italian spies were unable to check it, while in Addis Ababa officials insisted that Ras Seyoum had sent definite word of his movements within the past few days...
...Dec. 12 the League's so-called Committee of Eighteen which makes Sanctions decisions will consider Proposal...
...Catholic." The best Sir Patrick could do was to coax Putzy to admit that when Lady Listowel called upon him at Berlin in behalf of the German pacifist widely mentioned this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, Carl von Ossietzky, whom Nazis have clapped into a prison camp (TIME, Dec. 2), Dr. Hanfstaengl roared at Lady Listowel, "Ossietzky is a swine and a traitor!" Very earnestly last week Putzy testified, "I know Ossietzky is a traitor." "And do you think him also a swine?" asked Sir Patrick. "It is difficult. . . ." answered pensive Putzy, "It is difficult to say." In pressing...
...State's Cabinet. The new Cabinet of Yagoda: Commissar Yakov S. Agranov of the so-called Ogpu Secret Section devoted to unmasking and destroying Enemies of the Regime. On his hurry call to Leningrad after a Communist assassinated Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934), industrious Ogpuer Agranov had 66 men and five women shot in four days of star chamber proceedings, caused some 25,000 Leningraders (according to correspondents' guesses) to be deported to Siberia, this example of zeal being known in Russia as "Stalin's Revenge." Commissar Grigoriy Prokofiev...
...unsigned review of From 'Prentice to Patron, a biography of Isaiah Thomas, early U. S. printer. The undecipherable line was in a review by Lewis H. Titterton of With Napoleon in Russia, the newly-discovered memoirs of Napoleon's aide, General Armand de Caulaincourt* (TIME, Dec. 2). The line was at the end of a quotation from Napoleon which de Caulaincourt had offered as proof of the Emperor's unscrupulousness in winning allies...