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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Means' old Chairman Doughton, his spectacles quizzically pushed up on his forehead, presided over as rowdy a show as he has seen in his 28 years in Congress. The hearing room was jammed with Townsendites and other pension peddlers, for on the committee's schedule was no less a witness than Physician Francis E. Townsend himself. Far more unruly, however, were Congressmen anxious to outdo one another in doing for the old folks. Massachusetts' broadbeamed Republican Allen Treadway, whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when Congress...
...When U. S. Army & Navy officers talk shop nowadays, they chatter less about Roosevelt Rearmament than about a recent, historic shift from professional to civilian control of military affairs (TIME, Dec. 19). From Commander in Chief Franklin Roosevelt down, civilian authorities now are telling the admirals and generals what to do, sometimes are even telling them...
...less panicky was the Spanish Government in its retreat. Loyalist President Manuel Azaña passed over the border on foot. President Luis Companys of Catalonia and his government got to safety. So did President Jose Antonio de Aguirre of the now non-existent Basque Republic. Premier Dr. Juan Negrin stuck it out until the last minute, then took to a mountain pass to France. The last of his ministers were shortly on his heels...
Nothing could have delighted the European democracies more and nothing could have been less pleasing to the dictatorships than the report last week that President Roosevelt had told a Senate Committee that the U. S. defense frontiers were in France (see p. 12). The French and British press shouted with joy, while the totalitarian press of Germany and Italy outdid all previous efforts in denouncing Mr. Roosevelt and all he stood...
Wary British officials declined comment until the President's reported words were confirmed (which they emphatically were not). There were suspicions that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government, still bent on appeasing the dictators, welcomed U. S. bolstering less enthusiastically than France...