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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirers includes very few members of his own profession,'' says TIME [July 8] which would be justified in conducting a referendum on that dogmatic declaration. At the same time you . . . might start with a definition of admirers. We all read him if that's what you mean. And he is one of the very few men of genius who turn out daily columns today. . . . JOSEPH HOLLISTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

This oath does not mean what it says, wily Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was at pains to explain. The deputies, mostly henchmen of Premier Tsaldaris' so-called Government Party, were elected by Greeks who suspected M. Tsaldaris of being secretly Royalist but thought they could trust him to uphold the Greek Republic 53 demanded by the official oath. Explaining it glibly away, last week Royalist Tsaldaris declared: "The words 'Parliamentary Republic' do not need to be changed because a Republican Government is not necessarily without a King." The Tsaldaris Government next decided that between Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Spitework | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...r.p.m. Heat conveyed from the exhaust vaporizes the Solene and it is then drawn directly into the combustion chamber. There is no carburetor. The exhaust is almost entirely clear, indicating nearly complete combustion. Although they have no test data to prove it, Solene's sponsors think it will mean fuel economy and increased flying range for airplanes. A wick lamp filled with it burned seven times as long as with kerosene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solene | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...time for any hearings. His Finance Committee refused to approve the bill until he could fill in the draft and support it with detailed Treasury estimates. While Senators and Representatives mumbled and grumbled against such haste, Treasury experts worked all the second night figuring what the bill would mean in dollars & cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: High Haste, Low Speed | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...ancient statute" under which if the higher Admiralty officials feel the Government is endangering Britain's Naval security it becomes their "right and duty" to endanger it still further by resigning in a body. The mere threat of such an Admiralty strike, so M. Corbin was told, would mean national panic and the Government's fall. In short, Premier Laval could not have the promised papers last week. German secrets possessed by Britain must be concealed from France, her Wartime ally with all that that implied. Soon the official French attitude was made known by Minister of Marine Fran?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Odyssey & Hell-Hole | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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