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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normandie came clipping into Havre from her first voyage to Manhattan hav-ing broken once again last week the galaxy of records she first broke fortnight before (TIME, June 10). She averaged 29.68 knots for the westward transatlantic course, then 30.31 knots for the run home. Best previous average was Rex's 28.92 knots on the longer South Atlantic route. Last week Normandie's time from Ambrose Lightship to Bishop's Rock was 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, thus decisively disposing of Bremen's 4 day-16 hour-15 minute record (Ambrose Lightship to Cherbourg...
...printed. When hospitable wags of the Kenwood Golf Club gave him a two-ounce bottle of whiskey marked "A Year's Supply," adding the gift of five toy battleships, not only did Washington columnists recount the hilarity at length but even printed that, four of the battleships hav-ing disappeared, Ambassador Saito tucked the last in his pocket, sardonically remarking: "Ah, such is justice in this world." During last year's London Conference, when Japanese delegates were trying to argue Japan up from the inferiority of 5-5-3 to 5-5-5, the Washington Embassy switched...
...take this lying down is Max Amann. Two years ago Employer Hitler made him President of the Chamber of the German Press with vast theoretical powers. They came in handy last week. Crystalizing them with swift pen strokes, Nazi Max ripped out and signed three decrees mak-ing himself on their face Master of the Press...
Timed to reach a climax with the open ing of the Jubilee, a series of full page layouts of war pictures appeared in the Star every day for three weeks. They showed soldiers dying horribly of gas; soldiers of many nations fighting or drilling with the same make of machine gun (Maxim); preparations in Paris, Berlin and Tokyo to protect civilians against gas attacks...
...rebuff for his pains. Said Liggett: "You'd better mind your own business. I always eat them this way at home." Famed among drugmen are Liggett's letters to the trade, invariably addressed "Dear Pardner." Sample: "... I now find myself burdened with an innate feel ing to again come in close touch with you. . . . P. S. Our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...