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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TIME, Dec...
...Newly-married Prince von Starhemberg (TIME, Dec. 13) was reported last week in Switzerland. His mother, 62-year-old Fanny Starhemberg, was arrested for her work in Schuschnigg's Fatherland Front women's organization, was later released and put under " protective custody...
...this was authorized by President Lazaro Cardenas, originator of "The Mexican New Deal" (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934), who, the night before, had decreed expropriation of the $400,000,000 foreign oil investment, held largely by subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New Jersey and California and Sinclair oil companies. U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, to whom U. S. correspondents excitedly suggested that the Roosevelt "good neighbor" policy may have convinced Mexican workers that they can take U.S.property with President Roosevelt's tacit approval, replied: "Neither President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull nor I knew about...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TIME, Dec...
Under Ireland's new constitution (TIME, Dec. 27) its former President, U. S.-born Eamon de Valera, becomes Prime Minister. During a coast-to-coast broadcast from Hollywood last week, John McCormack, famed Irish-born tenor, offered himself as a Presidential candidate to succeed de Valera-providing 1) a naturalized citizen of the U. S. is eligible for the position and 2) the de Valera and Cosgrave opposition parties favor him. Said he: "Many of my friends in Ireland have written me to throw my hat in the ring...