Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department to cable Ambassador Dodd for his billionaire's name. But Senator Nye was not to have the fun and publicity which Congressional inquisitors got out of the dictator nightmares of Major General Smedley Butler and Gary's Dr. William Wirt in 1934. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman promptly came to the aid of the State Department by getting the resolution referred to his committee for "study and inquiry...
...with a single anti-tank gun and a barrier of three logs was able to put to flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered Mount Solluve which commands the entrance to Bilbao harbor. Planes, dropping the same incendiary bombs that destroyed Guernica (TIME, May 10), set fire to the forests, and a series of bloody bayonet charges cleared the rest of the Leftist strength off the mountaintop. Territory...
Ever since the celebrated Farley-Roosevelt airmail cancellation, the Post Office has been as capricious with the airlines as a young girl is with her suitors. This airline application it grants; that one it turns down, often with no satisfactory explanation. One of its key policies has been to frown on any proposed extension of one airline or creation of a new one if it will compete with an established service (TIME, March 22). Since the Post Office controls the air mail subsidy, its word is tantamount to law and many a proposed extension has failed to materialize. Denver...
...series of roundtable conferences and public discussions at the School. Among the guest speakers are President Mildred H. McAfee, of Wellesley College, who will talk on "The Plight of the Educated Man," and William Y. Elliot, professor of Government, who will discuss "Great Britain as the Key to World Diplomacy...
...food supplies to the hungry Basques of Bilbao (see p. 19), this last Leftist stronghold of the northwest seemed crumbling at week's end. After weeks of hard fighting and skilled maneuver in the mountains of Vizcaya Province, the Rightists under General Mola finally captured Durango and Eibar, key towns, but 16 and 25 mi. from Bilbao. With Eibar in flames and the road to Bilbao teeming with Basque troops in "headlong flight," rumor spread from Hendaye on the French frontier that the Loyalists in Bilbao had asked foreign diplomats at Saint-Jean-de-Luz to attempt to arrange...