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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--A Congressional source said tonight that midwestern liberals, under the leadership of Wisconsin's La Follette brothers, have agreed tentatively to throw their political weight behind a move to get a liberal Presidential candidate in one of the major parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...house painter with a Hitleresque mustache who calls himself "national commander of the Knights of the White Camellia." Messrs. Campbell and Deatherage decided to set up a sort of Hitler to whom they would play Göring and Goebbels. For their Führer they chose sympathetic Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who retired as commander of the U. S. Army's Fourth Corps Area last year with a blast against the New Deal, followed up with frightening speeches about the dastardly Jews, warnings that the time might come when the Army would have to "take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTOLERANCE: Boo! | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...were fast but had not been allowed to use airspeed indicators. The German planes he saw were not so elaborately made as U. S. craft, could not haul bombs across the Atlantic. He told so little (scarelines in newspapers notwithstanding) that one Congressman privately asked the Air Corps' Major General Henry Arnold, who was present, whether the witness was holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nice Fellow | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Tours. Although there was hope that the "war of nerves" waged by Italy and Germany might drag on through the summer without a major crisis, Germans and Italians were busy power-politicking on a half-dozen other fronts. Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: No Thank You, Herr Hitler | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Coach Adolf Samborski's powerful Yardling baseball team will provide the major sporting entertainment for the Jubilee throng tomorrow afternoon in Cambridge, meeting the strong Bulldog pop outfit on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Nine to Meet Eli Freshmen Tomorrow | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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