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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afterward Schutzstaffel men claimed they found in the university an anti-Nazi broadcasting station and secret printing plant. Soon Prague heard the crack of firing squads. Nine Czech students were executed, and all universities in the Protectorate were closed for three years, treatment no less harsh than the Tsars used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Space for Death | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Certain it is that for some time the famed Eighth Route Army has been an uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Sweden's large-scale purchases of munitions, fuels, certain foods and other "preparedness goods" were revealed to have run up during the past nine months an import balance of 345,000,000 kronor, whereas for the similar period last year Sweden's surplus of imports over exports was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Topple | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week Canada Dry staged a birthday broadcast and shindig at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for its experts of the year, guests and regulars, and for close friends and associates of Information Please. With Postmaster James Aloysius Farley as the guest, Kieran, Adams & Levant for the first time in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shindig | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

But young Lifer Whitsitt's chief pastime is broadcasting. For the last three years he has been Jackson prison's official newscaster, reporting daily prison news and gossip to 4,100 of the 5,440 inmates over the prison's elaborate cell-to-cell hookup.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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