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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Talk as the Germans and Russians might over expanding trade, up to this week no foreign correspondent in the Reich could report that he had seen the actual arrival of Russian goods in volume. Foreign diplomats wondered whether these big trade announcements were not calculated: 1) to scare the Allies; 2) to reassure the German people that this time a blockade would not be effective; 3) to persuade doubting Germans that the Russians were, after all, reliable allies. Anent this thesis, the New York Herald Tribune's peripatetic Joseph Barnes, who specializes in listening to streetcar conversations and talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Riddle | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...shells, the largest number of boats Tom Bolles has ever seen racing together, swept down the Charles under clear skies yesterday in a gala crew regatta, the last event in this fall's formal outdoor rowing season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comstock Crew Wins Regatta; Bellboys Victors in Track Meet | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

ROME--Premier Benito Mussolini today carried out the most drastic shake-up of his cabinet, party and highest military leaders which Fascism has seen in a surprise move interpreted as an effort to strengthen Italy's neutrality...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...Philadelphia last week met 5,000 men who have seen and caused more blood and wounds than any 5,000,000 of their fellows. Two hundred years ago such men were rated on a level with barbers (a trade they often combined with theirs). But no one last week could have so mistaken their social standing. Neat, spry and greying, the American College of Surgeons wandered among the palms of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel surveying wall-racks steely-bright with surgical knives, forks and spoons, rooms crowded with electrical vibrating beds, weird steel scaffolds for broken limbs, gently breathing rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sawbones | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...sign, and even the keenest observers cannot scent death by this crude method until a short time before the end. Last week Dr. Roy Donaldson McClure of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital described a machine that notes the shadow of death long before death's hue is seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sawbones | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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