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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sportsmen across the middle of the U. S. complained last year that their season (Oct. 21 through Nov. 19) was too early. This year the Survey took heed and divided the U. S. into three zones instead of two, setting dates as follows: Northern (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana) : Oct. 10 through...
Nominee Lee's Republican opponent in November will be another youngster, 38-year-old Herbert K. Hyde. A part-Indian who once studied elocution under Professor Lee, Nominee Hyde successfully prosecuted the kidnappers of Oilman Charles Frederick Urschel (TIME, Oct. 2 & 9, 1935). Last week he planned to out-josh Josh Lee, blanket Oklahoma with flamboyant oratory. Lee's slogan: "From hoe-handle to the U. S. Senate." Hyde's slogan: "From bootblack to U. S. Senator...
Britain must now adjust numerous sore points with Germany. These undoubtedly will be attended to by "Van." What they are clearly appeared in London last week before the House of Commons adjourned until Oct. 29 with the ominous proviso that it may reconvene "on five days notice" in case of emergency-i. e., war. So grave do M. P.'s consider the European situation that they asked and received Cabinet assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy...
...Queen Mary alone remained in full mourning for King George this week as other members of the Royal Family went into half mourning from which they will emerge Oct. 21. Officers of the fighting services and police last week removed their crape armbands...
...environment. Last week an ironic little volume by a onetime member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller as it got under way, or simply waiting to see what was going to happen before they declared their allegiance. A strong liberal, Emilio Lussu had been an officer in the Italian Army during...