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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women, all of which makes the Soviet Constitution the most democratic in the world." The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press in the U.S.S.R.. but last week the big Moscow newsorgans continued to print no details of Russia's current series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information be had about the Director of Tass, Jacob Doletsky. who so far as his Moscow journalist...
...Last week Mr. Shigemitsu delicately hinted that there had been no Japanese promise to withdraw, and wrathful Comrade Litvinoff, on discovering that the Japanese either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived of a bloody Japanese-Soviet clash in the Vinokurka Hills. This affray was on the Soviet-Siberian frontier nearly 1,000 miles east of the disputed Amur River islands. Comrade Litvinoff promptly handed a sharp warning to Ambassador Shigemitsu: "Soviet frontier troops have firm orders in no case...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
Sportswriter Rice's column established a golfer who was not only conceivably the best in the world but also so shy he refused to play in tournaments or have his picture taken as a public figure. John Montague promptly became major news. Last September, Westbrook Pegler devoted a column to him. Last January, when a freelance photographer finally got two snapshots of Montague, TIME published them with an account of his progress (TIME...
...thing Amelia Earhart Putnam still wanted to do?for the fun of it?was to fly around the world. She started from Miami, Fla. on June i with Fred Noonan, onetime Pan American navigator. They made mostly back page news until last fortnight when they started across 2,550 miles of Pacific Ocean toward tiny Howland Island, failed to reach it. Last week the likelihood was approaching sad certainty that Amelia Earhart Putnam had made headlines for the last time...