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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find, as the law required, a good man resident on the islands. But all the world knew that the President was thinking of the Massie rape & murder case of 1931-32, of the racial seethings that followed, of the loud squawks of an outraged Navy (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931, et seq.). By refusal of the Senate to act the President was prevented from carrying out what every resident of the territory would have considered a gross injustice based on a false premise...
Sued for Divorce. Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 50, financier, onetime head of Republic Steel Corp. who lost his fortune in a successful fight to block a merger between Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Steel & Tube (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931 et seq.); by Margaret House Eaton; in Akron. Charges: gross neglect...
...every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind of European alliance to attack the Reich may now be forming, Vice Leader Hess began to switch his talk from German to French. "Malheur pour nous! Malheur pour vous! Et malheur pour tout le monde!" puzzled Germans heard him shout. "An evil day for us! For you! And for all the world...
Upon Scot MacDonald the impending wreckage of his disarmament hopes threw a strain as severe as that which he, a life-long champion of free trade, faced when his National Government decided to gird up the Empire's loins with a high tariff (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). That crisis was got over by a spell of "eye strain" which enabled Ramsay MacDonald to absent himself from London during most of the time that free trade was being butchered. Last week, on the day after he broke Britain's big navy news, the Prime Minister...
Peruvian irregulars raped Leticia from Colombia in the first place (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933. et seq.). The real trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President...