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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quite apart from the immediate mobilization, the number of workers conscripted throughout Germany for rush work digging trenches, stringing barbed wire and erecting cement pillboxes every 150 yards along the Fatherland's new "Siegfried Line" (which faces part of the French "Maginot Line") rose last week to 300,000. Road contractors in southern Germany were also busy on rush orders to improve the surfacing of roads leading to the Czechoslovak frontier "to withstand more heavy traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Million Mobilized | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...news comments on a national hookup. Long before the baby's body had been found, Commentator Carter had become the British baritone Cassandra of news broadcasting, cloaking his accounts of daily events in a tone of dark menace. Last year a menace vague as his own rose over the Boake Carter broadcasts, has hovered there ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cheerio | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Church in the U. S. A. (the Northern body) issued a bit of pleasant warm-weather reading for its 1,953,734 communicant members. During its last fiscal year the church took in $40,551,108, an increase of $1,523,303 over the year before. Per capita donations rose $1.04, to $21.24. Presbyterian membership dropped 21,112 souls, but only on paper. At Eastertime 25,000 people usually join the church, and the past fiscal year, ending last March 31, did not include Easter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Up $1,523,303 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor) to call also on his redheaded actress friend Hope Dare (real name: Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Political Juice | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...voters of Kentucky, of course, disdained all swill trough promises. They rose even above personalities, in which the grinning, song-singing, slaphappy, 40-year-old Governor had a distinct edge over the slow-footed, slow-witted, 60-year-old drayhorse Senator. While "Happy" Chandler sang There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, voters remembered the plea of Franklin Roosevelt, author of all their benefits, to send back to the Senate his dear, distinguished colleague Mr. Barkley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Golden Swill | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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