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Word: helps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of time runs on, it has become evident that the people of the United States have tremendous confidence in ... John N. Garner. We have, therefore, organized a general committee looking to the drafting of JOHN NANCE GARNER for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. ... Are you willing to help us in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jack Garner's Friends | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Hong Kong waters. The British Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura was signaled to stop by a Japanese cruiser which fired two shots across her bow. Four officers and a party of marines boarded the ship, demanded to examine the ship's log. The captain refused, radioed Hong Kong for help. After loitering aboard ship for 20 minutes, the Japanese withdrew. The French freighter Aramis, whose skipper was not so tough, was not only halted by a destroyer but armed marines searched her. The captain of the German Hamburg-Amerika liner Sauerland, giant swastikas painted on her sides, was asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Stop and Search | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Brokennose." Dr. Charlie took his earliest lessons in anatomy as a small boy. In the Sioux uprising of 1862 Dr. William Worrall Mayo, father of the two famed brothers, had helped capture 38 big, powerful Indians, helped string them up wholesale along the banks of the Minnesota River. Scientifically-minded settlers who wanted a dead Indian could help themselves. "Father got Chief Broken-nose," wrote Dr. Charlie many years later. "We had a large kettle and that is where Will and I studied bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor Charlie | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...MURDER-D. B. Olsen-Crime Club ($2). Lieutenant Mayhew needs help from 70-year-old Rachel Murdock in solving the killings of her niece and another guest. A good creepy story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...tuning in station WIXFW at 7:30 o'clock in the morning, a radio fan may catch the signals sent down to earth by the radiosonde. Because upper air conditions are vital to air pilots, the Observatory has been getting help from the International Ice Patrol, the United States Weather Bureau, M. I. T., the Navy, and the Canadian, British, French, and Danish governments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Century-Old Laboratory Shows Its Equipment and Weather Records | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

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