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...However, I do not think the British will fight for Czechoslovakia. Russia remains a great big enigma. They are deeply involved in China; it is doubtful if they will went to make trouble in the West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Langer Believes Hitler Is Planning to Follow Czech Anschluss With Conquest of Balkans | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...efficient was Ed Musick that his concentration on safety in the minutest flight detail was a legend in U. S. aviation. He would not tie up to a buoy unless it was tested. To many an aviator his amazing good judgment made the Pago Pago accident something of an enigma. It is established that Captain Musick could have landed his heavily loaded ship in Pago Pago harbor. On the other hand, so precarious is fuel dumping as a method of lightening a plane, that it is forbidden by the Bureau of Air Commerce on all U. S. passenger-carrying aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: First & Last | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Said Assemblyman Francisco Lavides: "Frankly, McNutt is an enigma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Toast Trouble | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Lewis An "Enigma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALSH CLAIMS CIO IS "SELF-CONSCIOUS ARTICULATE FORCE" | 4/27/1937 | See Source »

After a summary of the "critical test in steel" and its success, the speaker turned to the "enigma," John L. Lewis. Claiming that "no one as yet among his followers thinks that Lewis will be faithless," Walsh claimed that many former Lewis enemies are now working with him. Powers Hapgood was mentioned in this connection as a man who thinks Lewis has been "converted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALSH CLAIMS CIO IS "SELF-CONSCIOUS ARTICULATE FORCE" | 4/27/1937 | See Source »

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