Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thorn Frank was too pointed for his flesh. The time came when Mr. Peek gave Mr. Wallace the choice of accepting his own resignation or Frank's. With the advice of Dr. Tugwell and the consent of the President, Mr. Wallace accepted Mr. Peek's (TIME, Dec...
Cheered by the Congress, too, was the shooting of 117 Russians to avenge the murder of Joseph Stalin's famed "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). To replace Friend Kirov in the Politbureau of the Party ("Soviet Big Ten"), Dictator Stalin put forward his hard-boiled nephew. Comrade Anastasy Mikoyan. In 1919 British troops occupying the city of Baku, Russia's oil metropolis, seized 26 self-styled "Bolshevik Commissars," shot all except smart Stalin's smart nephew who managed to escape. Last week the Soviet Congress acclaimed him as definitely a new Big Shot...
Nevertheless Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën (Royal Dutch Airlines) last week blamed the crash of its famed Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork) in the Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting...
Suddenly upon the screen was flashed the naked corpse of Public Enemy George ("Baby Face'') Nelson, scarred, cut and bloodied by the bullets of Federal agents (TIME. Dec. 10). At the grisly sight Doris Preisler gasped, gripped her husband's arm, shut her eyes in horror. Hustled home, she suffered a miscarriage, underwent two operations. Last week Sidney & Doris Preisler sued Universal Pictures for $150,000 on the ground that the newsreel had done them that much damage...
...tons) to supply the U. S., biggest sugar-eating nation, for a year and a half. But two months ago, for technical reasons, short traders on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange could not get enough sugar to fulfill December contracts of 26,450 tons (TIME, Dec. 31). The AAA quotas for Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had been filled for the year. Cuba had given to U. S. refiners what amounted to an option on the rest of the Cuban quota. Surplus sugar accumulated from other years was not tenderable in fulfillment of Exchange contracts. So the shorts...