Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the field narrowed down to the finalists, the two who had survived the week of sizzling heat, drenching rains, frayed nerves and menacing bugaboos were: San Antonio's 20-year-old Betty Jameson and Atlanta's 19-year-old Dorothy Kirby. Youngest finalists in the history of...
California has this year the biggest rush of tourists in its history, has taken from them at least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man...
In Paris, where it has become routine to guard the nation's art against the menace of German guns, the doors of the Louvre were locked and workmen began stolidly to remove its treasures. Some were stored behind steel walls in the Bank of France; others were carted off...
In London Westminster Abbey's caretakers crated the 600-year-old Coronation Chair in which George VI was crowned, and trundled it away. The British Museum closed; so did the National Gallery; and motor lorries filled with books and paintings rumbled out of London. Canterbury Cathedral's stained...
But all the prophets were not dopesters and gossips. So many well-informed foreign correspondents were aware of the situation (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938, et seq.) that it looked as if the only people who had not known just what was going to happen were the statesmen of England and...