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Word: merchantable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipped to belligerents until all rights, title and interest have been transferred abroad. 4) The President shall then proclaim combat areas, which no citizen or U. S. vessel may enter. 5) No U. S. citizen may travel on any belligerent's vessel. 6) No U. S. merchant ship may be armed. 7) No U. S. citizen or corporation may buy, sell or exchange bonds, securities, etc. of any belligerent state-ordinary commercial and go-day credits exempted. 8) No person in the U. S. may solicit or receive funds for any belligerent state named. 9) If the President believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Phantoms | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

This week, Germany replied with new menace to Britain's step of mounting guns on merchant vessels. "On the ground of self-preservation" and as a matter of "duty" all Nazi commanders were ordered to attack Allied ships without warning. First ship to feel such a stab was the neutral Danish freighter Vendia (bound for Scotland empty to get a cargo of coal which would have made a fine prize had the U-boat waited). Eleven men were killed, six taken ashore by another Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: This Pest | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...William Borah and his Neutrality Senators on Cash-&-Carry. This would force Europe's belligerents to come and get whatever Congress will let them buy-in their own ships. And this, in turn, would obsolete the up-&-coming U. S. Maritime Commission and its program of rebuilding the merchant marine to handle the foreign trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Ships-- for What? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

There is more than good direction. There are excellent performances by Jean Gabin as the deserting soldier; Michele Morgan as his wide-eyed mistress; and particularly Michele Simon as the pathological toy-merchant who kills and mutilates because of an unnatural love for his ward. In addition, there is an outstanding gallery of minor characters--each strikingly delineated and yet kept in proportion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...yesterday or even tomorrow. Illuminated and relieved of their characteristic length and considerable dross, some seem almost too attractive, too clearly themselves. Not that Shakespeare's flops are spared. "The poet in The Comedy of Errors puffs with unnatural effort. . . . His rhymes . . . rattle like bleached bones." But The Merchant of Venice, in which money and love go hand in hand and uncorrupted, is a "gentlemen's world," inhabited by "creatures whose only function is to sound in their lives the clear depths of human grace." In Henry IV, however, Van Doren considers that Shakespeare came to mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play Worlds | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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