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With the presence in Palestine last week of crisp, determined Lieutenant-General John Greer Dill, newly appointed Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Palestine, and the arrival at Haifa of a thousand British troops daily, there began with a vengeance the British Government's "mopping-up campaign" against Arabs who five months ago declared a general strike and began raising Ned in general to protest against Jewish immigration. In a brisk clash last week near Jenin between Arab citizens and British land & air forces, 53 Arabs and one British soldier were killed. All over the country Arabs were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Mop-Up | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...view of the reputation that Miss MacDonald has established as a moving picture actress, such a comment by you or anyone else has about as much influence with the public as a wart on a dill pickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1936 | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Juanita loves good food, refers constantly to her fare: "No body can cook cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gelouries! | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Army: Major General John Greer Dill, Director of Military Operations & Intelligence; Major General Walter King Venning, Director of Movements & Quartering; Colonel Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, Office of Military Operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Staff Talks: Spy Stories | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Clarence Cleveland Dill, 51, onetime (1923-35) U. S. Senator from Washington; from "General'' Rosalie Gardner Jones Dill, onetime militant New York feminist; in Spokane, Wash. Clarence Dill charged that his wife buried dogs and garbage in the backyard, refused to serve enough food to his political guests, told his friends that he was "a political coward" for declining to run for re-election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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