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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ENTIRELY DISCOURAGED, BEING BASED ON AT LEAST AS HIGH IDEALS OF HUMAN PROGRESS AS THOSE OF CERTAIN WELL KNOWN FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS OF WHAT WAS HIS NAME OH YES LANDON, CONTINUING WITH THE FURTHER LIBERAL ASSUMPTION THAT POSSIBLY THE HITLER EXPERIMENT IN NAZIISM IS NOT QUITE WHAT IS MEANT BY DEMOCRACY, WE MUST CONFESS THAT WE CAN'T EXACTLY UNDERSTAND WHAT TROTSKY AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE DRIVING AT WHEN THEY ALLY THEMSELVES WITH MR. HITLER AND OTHERS IN A FRANTIC ATTEMPT TO UPSET THE RUSSIAN APPLECART AT ANY COST. OF COURSE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE RUSSIAN TRIALS WERE QUITE...
...bright half-moon shining on Madrid from a clear, starry sky helped intensify the bloody horror of Spain's Civil War last week. It meant that the capital's inhabitants, beleaguered for nearly four months, had no respite even at night from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White bombers...
Because Germans knew that No. 2 Nazi Göring meant what he said when he threatened to cut off the heads of Germans who fail to bring back into Germany cash or securities they hold abroad (TIME, Dec. 14), the Government was able to announce last week that over $100,000,000 has been restored to the Reich. One smart German not long ago had a set of automobile tools made of platinum, soiled these with grease and dirt, went motoring to Switzerland, locked the tools in a safe deposit vault. Up to last week...
...defeated more than once this season, and likely to win Minnesota's first. Conference basketball championship in 18 years as compensation for the unexpected failure of its football team to go through the year undefeated. For Purdue, Big Ten Champions for the past three years, the victory meant an approximate quadruple tie with Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan, at the top of the Conference standing, a good chance to equal a classic Conference record by winning its fourth basketball championship in a row. The deadlock, in the tightest Big Ten basketball season in years, did not last long. Two nights...
Preliminary 1936 earnings figures showed a net profit of $580,000 for the K.C.S., comparing with a deficit of $955,000 in 1935. The L. & A. showed a $334,000 profit last year, comparing with $428,000 the year before. What the deal last week meant was that Harvey Couch's ideas on co-operation would be applied to freight operations, especially since the two roads together would have the most direct route between New Orleans and Kansas City by way of Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Texarkana and Joplin...