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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After listening to Father Coughlin's radio broadcast of yesterday [Sunday. Jan. 29], let me congratulate TIME on its dirty sneaky attack on a Christian Catholic Priest...
Because Philadelphia had not paid $303,000 of their 1937 bills, two coal companies last week threatened to deliver no more coal to the city's water works. Director Wilhelm F. Knauer of the Department of Supplies & Purchases warned the City Council: " We can't let a city of 2,000,000 go without water. . . . We will simply have to call out our police and seize coal wherever we find it, probably from the railroad trains. It would be a case of committing a technical crime in order to prevent a great human crime...
...relentlessly on, a wild churning wave of soldiers and civilians, rushing for the border, rolled before them. Veterans of Belchite, Teruel, the Ebro campaigns carried their rifles, hauled machine guns and field pieces, even drove tanks up to the frontier, where they were confiscated. They were determined not to let General Franco capture any war weapons. At one point alone 4,000 were crossing the French border every hour. At another point a Loyalist Army band played patriotic Spanish airs while the bedraggled and defeated army crossed into France. Of the 200,000 men left in the Loyalist Army...
...peaceable settlement and have no sinister idea in their minds. I say, therefore, that what we want to see is not only words which indicate a desire for peace but-before we can enter upon that final settlement -we shall want to see some concrete evidence of a willingness, let us say, to enter into arrangements for, if not disarmament, at any rate a limitation of armaments." This did not mean that "appeasement" was to be abandoned-on the contrary, Mr. Chamberlain assured the House that "it is steadily succeeding"-but it was about as close as the Prime Minister...
...Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, echoed the advice of Sir Auckland Geddes. Wartime Minister of National Service, who three weeks ago told British housewives to keep at least a week's supply of food on hand. He also let it be known that special steps, of an unspecified nature, were being taken to insure the continuity of Britain's water supplies in case of air attacks...