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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Oct. 23, p. 14, ". . . [John Nance Garner's] Neon-blue eyes. . . ." If you will check the spectrum of Neon you will find it emits mostly orange and red wavelengths of light. Mercury or argon are the usual sources of blue light used in signs...
...romance of George Lowther 3rd, 30, Yaleman. insurance broker, cafe socialite, and Eileen Herrick, 20, only daughter of stern Walter R. Herrick, onetime Park Commissioner of New York City. George wanted to marry Eileen. The Herricks did not want Eileen to marry George. Eileen could not be reached to find out what she wanted. So, George, claiming that the Herricks were holding Eileen a prisoner against her will, got from Justice Wasservogel a writ of habeas corpus demanding that the father produce the girl in court. Reporters had interviewed Mr. Herrick and found him the classic figure of the outraged...
...ticklish Forbach salient, overlooking the ghost industrial city of Saarbrücken, led observers to guess that the German onslaught there last month, which for a time had the French defenders entirely cut off from support and supplies (TIME, Nov. 13), was a typical German "information" offensive, designed to find out what the French command will do in given circumstances rather than to take an objective now. Before the great Ludendorff push of 1918, the Germans conducted innumerable attacks of inquiry, compiled a thorough textbook on the behavior of various generals commanding various parts of the Allied line. They learned...
Amsterdam became an international banking centre challenging in importance the City of London and the Paris Bourse. It houses such famous institutions as the Amsterdamsche Bank n. v., the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy n. v., Mendelssohn & Co. (now defunct), whose proprietors will turn a guilder almost anywhere they can find one. They are still sorry that Spain's Dictator Franco turned down their offer to bank him last spring. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Amsterdam became a concentration camp for refugee money. The city's grain market is one of the biggest in Europe; its stock-market...
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