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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Our democracy is proud of having always been a disciplined democracy," President Benes told the nation. "I am talking to all of you-Czechs, Slovaks, Germans and all other nationalities . . . I believe the German people, as well as the Czechs, Slovaks and all others, desire to work together in quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Maximum Concessions | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Like old Captain Joshua Slocum almost 40 years before him, like salty Harry Pidgeon, who followed Herman Melville's Typee course, like seagoing Soldier-Tennist Alain Gerbault-cockle-shell Magellans all-Dwight Long had set his sails to go round the world. He had $200 cash, a guarantee of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Idle Hour | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Instead, General Franco offered: 1) a withdrawal of 10,000 foreign troops from each side; 2) to respect two "safety ports" in Leftist Spain for the exclusive entry of food; 3) to try to agree upon a definition of military objectives. Mincing few words, he demanded "as a right" to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Unpleasant Reading | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Into his occasional proclamations from Switzerland, France's handsome, six-foot, 24-year-old Bonapartist Pretender, His Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon† commonly flings some such ringing piece of Corsican bravado as "My name is the most glorious guarantee France has ever had of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Skin of Fascism! | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Senator Donahey, consenting, furnished Accountant Conick with the same powers of access to TVA records and witnesses as the committee's other experts. As private utilitarians cheered this new guarantee of an ice-cold view of TVA, Senator Davis publicly declared:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Checker-Uppers | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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