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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title created for "but never accepted by George Washington, conferred afterwards upon only four officers: Grant, Sherman, Sheridan (Civil War), Pershing. Although he retired in 1924, John J. Pershing is still on the active list as General of the Armies, has the words lettered over his sumptuous, seldom-used office in the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Birthday | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...unify Cana dian opinion. One brought into the fold Canada's dissident minority, the 2,500,000 French Catholics of the Province of Que bec. The news which fired them was the entrance of pagan Russia into Catholic Poland, the leaguing together of Satan's archangels, J. Stalin with A. Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Peace | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

From its seats on the Eastern sideline, watching the smashing performance of the German juggernauts, J. Stalin's Red Army was at last unleashed at 4 a.m., Sunday, September 17. Led by its air pilots and big tanks, it rattled into Poland along all main east-west highways on a 500-mile front, from the Dzwina River (above Polotsk) on the north to the Dniester (Rumanian border) on the south. From past reports of the Russian mobilization, some observers guessed that 2,000,000 men were on the move. At nightfall, the first war communique from Moscow listed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Red Sprint | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...first ships held up was the Black Osprey of the Black Diamond Lines, bound from New York to Rotterdam with a mixed cargo. For five days her owners did not know where the ship was. When he did learn, Black Diamond's President Victor J. Sudman protested sharply to the U. S. State Department. In due course the Black Osprey was permitted to clear with all her cargo for Antwerp and Rotterdam, the British explaining that "it was not fully established that Germany was the destination and the items themselves were proved to be unimportant in quantity." Snorted President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Strangling Match | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...yoga roost of Dr. Pierre Bernard, the Omnipotent Oom of the Sunday supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found him standing on his head-relaxing, he said. Thus relaxed, he handed Max quite a pasting. But Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy paw. For a week before last week's fight he smoked a dozen big black cheroots a day, drank two or three beers after workouts, did road work nights until his wife came down from Orange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Barrel Palooka | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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