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Word: happenings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen to know the personnel of the group which you dub "An A. M. A.-inspired citizens' committee." This attempt to slur a group of distinguished, public-spirited Chicagoans reflects only discredit upon the source of your news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...fight that Russia evidently could not take on a new adventure. Moreover, in Rome the Fascist Grand Council, highest governing body of Italy, met in a lengthy night session, heard Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano expound for two hours and a half and finally conclude that "everything that may happen in the Danube Basin and the Balkans cannot help but directly interest Italy." The Soviet Government took the almost unprecedented step of squelching Communist International for its article. It was at about this point that Germany let a flight of 80 Italian airplanes cross her territory to Finland, sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...taken every major Polish city but Warsaw and Lwow.) Effective help from Italy, Great Britain and especially Sweden (which was most threatened by her traditional enemy's advance) might enable the Finns to hold off the Russians for many months, and in many months many things could happen. One thing that happened this week was a U. S. credit of $10,000,000 to Finland. But if no further military help was forthcoming, the Finns could hope only to sell their country for much Russian blood. This they were prepared to do. Cried Premier Risto Ryti in a nationwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Such Nastiness | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...only console is that the American public is fickle. It soon forgets bad news the same as it forgets good news. We know that a lot of things will happen throughout the world tonight that will cause us to forget the things that were reported yesterday. But, please TIME, pretty please, give Cicero its rightful break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...wise citizen of Paris wants to know what Hitler and Stalin are thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis is one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political maneuvers, behind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aunt Genevi | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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