Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Longwell's letter (TIME, Jan. 14) of objection and cancellation intrigued me to such an extent that I looked up the Dec. 3 issue to see what terribly immoral or obscene article, with illustration, I might have overlooked Having found the offensive article and reread it, I still fail to see any justification. TIME reported facts...
...authority of Rome, good Communists, the authority of Moscow. Even testy old Admiral von Levetzow, hard-boiled Nazi chief of Berlin police, beamed and bubbled with good humor last week. He decreed that Stresemannstrasse, named after Germany's late, great Nobel Peace Prize winning Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), should be renamed Saarlandestrasse. Since beauteous Widow Stresemann, once the "Queen Kathe" of swank Berlin night clubs, happens to be a Jewess, Admiral von Levetzow was congratulated last week on having winged two birds with one pellet...
Nothing but their names gave the League's well-to-do founders John W. Davis, James W. Wadsworth and Alfred E. Smith. Founder-President Shouse received a salary of $12,000 for Sept. 15-Dec, 29, plus $6,000 traveling expenses...
...Geneva agitated agents of Dictator Mussolini hastily withdrew from circulation last week an Italian map on which it appeared that Power of Trinity I was correct when he protested to the League that the towns in which Italian and Abyssinian troops recently clashed were on Abyssinian soil (TIME, Dec. 24 et seq.) Mussolini now contends that the "Ualual Incident," a three-day pitched battle in which 30 Italians and 110 Abyssinians died, occurred on Italian soil, the frontier line never having been exactly drawn. With the telltale map whisked out of the way, the League Council sat down to hear...
...monster collective farm near Saratov peasants decided to do something about the assassination of Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). Slapping together improvised scenery to represent Leningrad Communist Party Headquarters, where the crime was committed, they re-enacted it before a fascinated audience which came from miles around. As in real life, Comrade Kirov was shot by another Comrade, both men correctly represented as Communists in good standing...