Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When TIME'S editors make news. TIME will describe them.-Tall, balding, beetle-browed...
...cash-and-carry system for trade with belligerents, except that go-day credit supplanted the cash phrase. With this before them, Vandenberg and the Opposition groomed for the latest Battle of a Century of many battles. On strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco-quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils the reek from Vandenberg's rhetoric; constantly he saw Borah and McNary; constantly he smiled his Kewpie smile with the air of a cat set for cream. La Follette's crisp battle-slogan: "We'll fight...
...Last week the news from Europe took a new, odd twist. If some master of suspense had planned the week's plot-artfully following a big speech (see p. 20) with a timely assassination (see p. 23) a possible conspiracy nipped in the bud (see p. 21) and the Japanese, as usual, providing comic relief (see p. 25)-if it all had been planned ahead of time to create the utmost mystery, it could hardly have been improved upon. As melodrama, as a spectacle-as comedy as low as slapstick, and as tragedy as elevated as the warfare...
...equipment, with new determination to jack its sagging morale, with the knowledge that Britain and France were no longer the whalebones in China's financial corset. The Army's greatest blessing was that it no longer had Russia to fear. Soldiers read reports from Domei, the official news agency, telling that in the no man's land of the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border, a Japanese lieutenant colonel and a Soviet major general stepped from cars decorated with white flags and shook hands in formal recognition of their truce. Domei reported nothing, not even the gist, of their...
...Fifth Hitler interview (August 29) : "The interview this evening was of a stormy character and Hitler was far less reasonable than yesterday. A press announcement this evening that five more Germans had been killed in Poland and news of the Polish mobilization had obviously excited...