Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frustrated Irish Fascist. General O'Duffy was once a rural architect, joined the Irish Republican Army in 1917. Later he opposed Eamon de Valera with a blue-shirted Fascist army of his own (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933 et seq.), had recently faded from the Irish political scene...
Biography of greatest distinction was Hamilton Fish; The Inner History Of The Grunt Administration (TIME, Oct. 26), by Allan Nevins, who also won in 1933 for his study of Grover Cleveland...
Cartoon. To tall Clarence Daniel Batchelor of the New York News (TIME, Oct. 26) went the $500 cartoonist's award for a picture of a harlot labeled "War" enticing a boy labeled "Any European Youth." Caption: "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...
...Locarno Treaties to defend Britain or France if either should be attacked, has long been ready to let the rest of Europe go hang. Handsome young King Leopold III seven months ago gave out that his country intended to "follow a policy exclusively and entirely Belgian" (TIME, Oct. 26), and last week that policy was fulfilled. The French and British Governments, making a virtue of necessity both agreed to release Belgium from he promise to defend Britain and France from attack, but maintained their pledge, from motives of self-interest, to fight if Belgim is invaded. Apart from being bound...
...Roosevelt bandwagon into the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalcy, last fortnight announced himself as the new publisher of the Nashville Tennessean whose evening and Sunday editions compete with the Banner. Behind capable Publisher Evans' roly-poly person loomed the paternal bulk of huge Jesse Jones and the RFC (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935, et seq.) whose interest in the Tennessean seemed to guarantee the New Deal a strengthened friend in Nashville and the Banner a strengthened rival...