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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain, where she was soon seen again in the company of German agents. They sent her back to France and there, in 1916, the French caught her with Germany's check for 15,000 pesetas ($3,000) in her pocket. At her trial she contended this money, like other payments traced to her, was only the price of her love, taken by her lovers out of their espionage expense money. She said she really spied on the Germans for France. She was shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: No Hari | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...month elementary course has been telescoped into 16 weeks. (Many of the men will get this part at home in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain.) They know that now when they come out full-fledged, they will be given the best ships to fly that money can buy. Especially in fighters, Britain is satisfied that she is the Nazis' match, her Hawker Hurricanes being nearly as fast and twice as manageable as Germany's celebrated Messerschmitts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Organization. Elliott Roosevelt himself holds no office in TBS, says he has none of his own money in it. TBS has thus far sold $350,000 worth of stock at $175 a share, most of it to Publisher Elzey Roberts of the St. Louis Star-Times, and his brother John; H. J. Brennen, owner of two Pittsburgh stations; David Baird of Manhattan. TBS's president is John T. Adams, onetime adman who prettified Lydia Pinkham's preparations for U. S. networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Transcontinental | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year-old Cravat (famed Johnstown was retired last month because of a mysterious wheeze). Challedon had won eight out of 14 starts this year; Kayak, seven out of nine; and Cravat had finished in the money in eleven out of 15 races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pimlico Special | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Favorite was Challedon. Though a year younger than his rivals, he had already earned more money ($242,000) than either of them, had already broken the world's record for a mile-and-three-sixteenths. More important to sentimental, superstitious racing fans, the big bay colt was bred at nearby Walkersville, had always shown a fondness for the Pimlico track. There he turned his first big trick, when he won the Pimlico Futurity as a two-year-old. There he became the darling of Maryland by beating undefeated Johnstown in the Preakness last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pimlico Special | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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