Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Questioned again about the recent London activities of his aide. Captain Royal Ingersoll-who was last week sensationally reported by the British political tipsheet The Week to have been engaged in showing the British admiralty a complete outline of Japanese Naval plans stolen in Tokyo by a U. S. secret agent-Admiral Leahy was still reluctant to do more than admit that in London Captain Ingersoll had indeed discussed "tonnage of combatant ships...
...Barcelona, officials of Spain's Leftist Government confirmed last week that recent Rightist victories in the Teruel sector (TIME, Feb. 14) "completely eliminated the spearhead" which Leftist forces previously drove in north of Teruel. Rightist officials said their troops had recaptured an area twice as great as that taken from them by the Leftist offensive which took Teruel (TIME, Jan. 17, et ante), but the Rightists last week had not recaptured Teruel itself...
...entertainment of the U. S. crews. Wrote the Singapore Free Press: "The most casual observer can see that the decision to send three American cruisers to Singapore was actuated by more than a desire to repeat those goodwill visits which have featured Singapore's naval life in recent years...
...almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...
...recent speeches by Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, responsibility for the business recession was laid at the door of (1 monopolistic Big Business, 2 foreign war, 3 speculation in American stocks and bonds by foreigners, 4 overproduction, 5 insufficient gold supply...