Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic's ore supply. Representative John T. Bernard of Eveleth, Minn., one-time miner, fireman and labor leader-who signalized his appearance in Congress last January by delaying passage of the Neutrality Act until the Mar Cantabrico had sailed with a cargo of arms for Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. 18)-hastened home from the Capital to help C.I.O. organize the iron-miners...
...variation on this disinfecting theme last week was the suicide of mat-bearded Jan Gamarnik, Vice-Commissar for Defense. His death came month after the demotion of Defense Vice-Commissar Mikhail Nikolaivich Tukhachevsky (TIME, May 31). Gamarnik, 43, had been a member of the Communist Party since 1916. After the civil war he became head of all political work in the Red Army, was given the special title of "Military Commissar of the First Rank" when, in 1935, five generals were raised to the newly created rank of Marshal. After his death it was officially revealed that he was "connected...
...Rzeszów, Poland, twice-widowed Magdalena Niedzialek, 107, announced her engagement to Jan Brzezie, 78, pensioned City Hall doorman...
Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed...
...Jan. 12 came a General Order: "Great watchfulness against abandoning arms and equipment must be taken. The most serious feature is that this has been tolerated by commanding officers and even ordered by some...