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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later-three days before his deadline-he rose before the Interparliamentarians and, with a wild look in his eye, proposed a 30-day moratorium during which Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy would talk things over; if the four powers failed, said Ham Fish, the problem should be refered to the Kings of Norway and of the Belgians and the President of Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All This War Talk | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...would have turned his head for a second look at four people and a rabbi waiting for a flowerless hearse in a small cemetery near Paris last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Post-War Story | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...British Government formally announced that not only would the four alleged puppet-killers in Tientsin be handed over, but also a fifth man, previously unmentioned. The British proudly stated that the fifth man had been surrendered only with the proviso that the British Consul General could occasionally go and look at him to make sure that he was not being tortured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Boiler Gang | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip right inside the house to get a good look at who is misbehaving-and for how much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Women in Wartime | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Johnstown Flood was the big U. S. news when Robert Charles Watson and his twin brother, William George, each five-foot-four, alike as two Dromios, set out from home one summer morning in 1889 to look for their first jobs. They met at noon at "Four Corners" in downtown Rochester, N. Y. Rob had landed a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co. Bill had a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Commercial National Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Boys from Rochester | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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