Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oct. 9 TIME, Mr. McReynolds plugs for Charles A. Lindbergh as a presidential candidate. In behalf of a few million Americans please allow me to express a preference for Douglas (Wrong-Way) Corrigan...
...editor who wrote your story of Emden (TIME, Oct. 16) drew freely on his imagination, particularly in respect to the escape of the crew on board the Ayesha. Lieut. Capt. Helmuth von Mikke's account in his book Ayesha relates that the landing force of approximately 56 men, sent ashore by Capt. Miller to destroy the wireless station on Keeling Island (English), did just that and was caught ashore when the cruiser Sidney engaged and sank the Emden. Contrary to your romantic "jungle hiding," the landing party which was, of course, now in command of the island, outfitted...
...persistent reporter of foreign submarines in U. S. waters had been Lieut.-Commander Cooke's Commander in Chief, Franklin Roosevelt (who was seeing submersibles as late as Oct. 7 off Miami). Last week the President cited no visiting submarines, but he made submarine news of the first importance. By denying belligerent undersea boats right of entry to U. S. ports, save in dire emergency, he drew a significant distinction between prospective German raiders and the surface warships and armed merchantmen of Great Britain and France...
...Chile announced that submarines as well as surface warcraft could find haven in her ports. Off Brazil, well within the unbuckled "safety belt" projected by the U. S. and her sister republics three weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 9), British and French cruisers last week continued to look out for German or contraband shipping...
...Upon receipt of a reply from Joseph Stalin's stooge, old President Kalinin of the U. S. S. R., Mr. Roosevelt made public his admonition to Russia to go easy on Finland (TIME, Oct. 23). The President of the U. S. in a "personal message"-in the diplomatic scale, one short of formal representation-had simply reminded Russia of 1) U. S. friendship for little Finland; 2) the fact that Franklin Roosevelt got the U. S. to recognize the friendless Soviets in 1933. The President of the U. S. S. R. diplomatically told the President...