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Dates: during 1930-1939
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His reputation for sharpness grew; his well-placed friends multiplied; names accumulated on the office door. After 1920 he saw more & more of his old classmate, Martin Manton, by then a Federal Circuit Court judge, became interested in two of Manton's many enterprises. And during the Depression something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disbarred | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

During World War I French finance ministers spent billions of their country's money as the generals spent lives-on a do or die principle. They made no attempt to balance their budgets and instead of figuring expenses on a yearly basis they asked for appropriations monthly.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Pay As You Go? | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Beset by these actualities and bedeviled by these probabilities, the Queen of The Netherlands has opened her mouth in many a peace appeal, kept it closed in many a case of violated neutrality during the past few months in a desperate effort to keep her political hot corner out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Parallel. Just as today the fate of The Netherlands Empire leans on the fate of the British Empire, so the colonial history of The Indies roughly parallels that of British-owned India: a period of government by the Dutch East India Co., followed by The Netherlands Government taking over; ruthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

In Prague, the Elite Guard garrison was raised to 10,000, the city placed under martial law. A terse communique soon announced the execution of three more Czechs, two of them policemen, "because of acts of violence against a German," which were not revealed. Czech Communists meanwhile stuck up in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Space for Death | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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