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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implements of war" (TIME, Oct. 7). For good measure, he repeated the definition. A supplementary proclamation warned U. S. citizens against traipsing around the war zone or getting on Ethiopian (if such things be) or Italian vessels. Having done all he was permitted to do under the Neutrality Resolution, President Roosevelt went back to his fishing...
...Crempa, was against the wires at any price. One crisp morning last week some 2,000 of his neighbors and their fellow Poles from nearby cities swarmed to John Crempa's house for the funeral of his wife, Sophie, who had been shot by a deputy sheriff (TIME, Oct. 7). For a mile in either direction the road was black with their automobiles. There was little sobbing in the crowd, much angry muttering. Posted in the yard was a sign which read: THIS IS WHERE PUBLIC SERVICE SENT THEIR COLD-BLOODED KILLERS TO SHOOT INNOCENT CITIZENS WHO SOUGHT...
...agreeable people," continued II Duce. "It has never come into the English mind until recently that Italy could have a will of her own and a complete independence in regard to England. . . " Since Britain assured Italy officially that her fleet concentration in the Mediterranean is not anti-Italian (TIME, Oct. 7), the Dictator urged that tension be eased by withdrawing some British ships, indicated that he was ready in return to withdraw some Italian troops from Libya where they have been said to menace the British position in Egypt. "The League of Nations-and even more the good sense...
This august candor, of course, quickened the war-scared flight of hoarded gold from London to Manhattan, despite the fact that on arrival it had to be converted into Roosevelt Dollars, with little assurance of possible reconversion into gold and shipment back to Europe later (TIME, Oct. 7). Well might so mad a state of affairs make the Governor of the Bank of England howl, but the Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer is icy Neville Chamberlain, and last week this hook-nosed paragon of Conservatism favored the same London banquet with his stiff upper...
...Oct. 31--Adams vs. Leverett; Kirkland vs. Lowell...