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...glittering in the sun. Immediately a White counterattack followed. Soon was raging what correspondents called "a massacre comparable to a battle in the World War." As Whites and Militia mowed each other down with machine guns, there was fought above them on the battle's second day the grimmest air duel they had yet seen. Down into their midst fell eleven planes-four Red, seven White. After three days of furious see-saw struggle with each army using the cream of its men, neither side had gained an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No Candy Drops | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Grimmest problem of many a German mother & father today is how to keep their teen-age son or daughter out of one of the Hitler camps for young people. These provide good wholesome food, exercise which varies from dancing on the greensward to building roads, and periods of recreation after hours during which a surprising number of children are conceived. Nazi officials mostly figure that the important thing for soldier-seeking Germany is more and healthier births, to the exclusion of bothering about a dowry, a church wedding or even a civil marriage. This view was made official at Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Natural, Healthy Instincts'' | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...Washington fortnight ago in much trepidation journeyed some 200 leaders of U. S. commercial aviation, summoned by the Department of Commerce to a three-day conference to seek the causes for the five major crashes which made December and January the grimmest two months in U. S. flying history. Genuinely baffled, heckled by the Press and scared for their own skins, the airmen timorously offered suggestions, timorously took sides on the two real issues which arose-radio and the Bureau of Air Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Crash of the Week | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...their most important football game of the year. That was in the first quarter when they stopped the Boston Redskins one foot short of a touchdown. Except for another goal-line stand, this time when the Redskins needed four yards to score, the rest of the game, roughest and grimmest of the season, was Boston's all the way. Ankle-deep mud slowed down the Giants' best ball carrier, Alphonse ("Tuffy") Leemans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pay Checks and Packers | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Negroid race of France is our grimmest hater. . . . Jews, secret masters of France, are working to destroy the racial purity of Germany. ... It was, and is, the Jew who brings the Negroes to the Rhine to destroy the white race he hates by bastardization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Early Battle | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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