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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaska is "perhaps the last country in the world where a hermit can build a cabin and never see a tax collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Defrosting | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...British still expect London to be strafed in event of war, but they are confident that much as its buildings may be damaged, with its new defenses life cannot be made impossible in the metropolis. They are certain that if London is not wrecked in two weeks, it will never be wrecked and the Germans will lose the war. Other areas which are virtually certain of becoming battlegrounds because of the airplane are the great industrial areas of the British Midlands and the German Ruhr. These would be battles of industrial attrition, productive of great wreckage but effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Geography of Battle | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

General Gamelin knows all about Bazaine's blunder and he knows also the history of the first Napoleon, who never made such mistakes. Napoleon frequently carried his eagles through the Black Forest into southern Germany. Ulm, Ratisbon and Hohenlinden in the South German Basin were all sites of Napoleonic victories against the various coalitions of Austria, Russia and England. A few miles from Ulm, at Blenheim, the Duke of Marlborough won his "famous Victory" in 1704-the victory over the French that so nonplussed the grandfather of Little Peterkin in Robert Southey's poem. To prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Geography of Battle | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Sold, the convention upheld his honor. But Dr. Leach still clung on. Realizing that they would never win any concessions from the A. M. A. with Dr. Leach in the saddle, the association after six days of wrangling, finally ousted him, ordered its lawyer to fight the whole matter out in court if necessary. Elected as new president was Dr. Albert Woods Dumas of Natchez, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leach's MacDonald | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Edda Ciano in TIME, but at first no reason was given for the ban. Questioned by the daily press, which saw something dangerously approaching censorship, the wholesalers attributed the ban to their fear of libel suits. In the 15 years it has been circulated in Great Britain TIME has never been sued for libel. Though startled by the ban in a country which boasts of its free press, TIME planned no action, left the business of Britain's press censorship up to Britain's press itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: TIME Ban | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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