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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tireless Alan Frederick Lascelles, acting private secretary to George VI, was kept busy last week during Their Majesties' home-bound tour of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread-&-Butter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...days of the blockade were two British ships finally allowed to come up the Hai River to the Concession docks. While most other Occidentals were comparatively unaffected by the blockade, the 1,500 British civilians of the Concession were stopped, questioned, stripped, manhandled. After a few such instances they kept to the Concession. For a few hours one day British machine-gunners and Japanese soldiers in tanks glowered at each other over sandbag barricades and through barbed wire entanglements. The British have 750 soldiers at Tientsin; the Japanese have hundreds of thousands in North China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to resist Adolf Hitler's aggressions in Europe, took no measures at all. The British felt that they could not fight the Japanese economically without U. S. aid, and last week the U. S. State Department kept noticeably quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Home Consumption. Through most of this williwaw, one man who kept his head screwed on was MBS's Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, an oracle in England because he speaks plain English in weekly BBC broadcasts from the U. S. to 1,000,000 British homes. Officially summing up for the BBC on Saturday, Commentator Swing told Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Curtsies | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Corey with five goals was the chief reason for the Eli victory Saturday, but Gay Dillingham's three markers kept Harvard in the thick of the fight most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Down Malletzoen 12 to 5 To Win National Polo Crown | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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