Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steady growth of the U. S. labor force, which he figured currently at 40,000 per month. "We are at a strategic point in our economy," he said. "If we go on as we are, we are in for stagnation and decline. One of the interesting observations of recent years is the inability of the system to maintain itself at any level it has attained. We do not stop. We either go forward or back." He was for going forward, and gave as "the overall question" of the investigation: "Why have we not had full employment and full utilization...
...Sawdust. After six weeks of testimony concerning the stupidity and naivete of German spies in the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 14), the No. 1 espionage trial of recent times ended in Manhattan. Convicted by a Federal jury were: Johanna Hofmann, 27, a Dresden redhead who roamed the world as a hairdresser on German ships, wound up carrying spies' messages on the liner Europa; Otto Hermann Voss, 39, an airplane factory mechanic who turned in much junk and one set of valuable pursuit-plane plans to the Nazi intelligence service; ex-Private Erich Glaser...
...French practice of outright bribes to newspapers, Premier Edouard Daladier was reported to have proposed to his Cabinet specific measures to "correct many of the evils existing under our unrestricted freedom of the press." Most French papers have accommodated the Government by suppressing the more unpleasant facts about the recent Nazi pogrom. A general toning down of all references to Adolf Hitler & Germany was last week believed to be part of the deal which Frenchman Daladier and German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop were about to strike in Paris...
...kitchen nail, is the same as in 1793. Unchanged are its astronomical and tide charts, its page of "Poetry, Anecdotes and Pleasantries." It has articles on molasses silage, fertilizer, a recipe for eggnog pie. Under "December hath 31 days," a reader may still glean such nuggets from the recent past as "Sitting Bull killed in fight between Soldiers and Indians...
...Nazi government realizes that, should the Italian peninsula and Tunisia be joined under the same rule, Mussolini would obtain strategic control over the Mediterranean. And the dominance of this sea by any single nation would imperil the "drang nach Osten." Recent events have only emphasized the importance to Germany of maintaining the divided control there is at present; for the Reich, barred by a hostile Rumania from access to the Black Sea, is now trying to make Yugoslavia her vassal and Mediterranean outlet. German interests have thus come into conflict with the Italian dream of a "Mare Nostrum...