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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were high water marks in the most drastic reorganization the British Army has seen for generations, a reorganization that proposed almost complete substitution by advancement by merit instead of by seniority, a new Army Council on which Territorial (National Guard) officers would sit for the first time, increased pay and better living conditions for both officers and men. The equivalent of reviving David Lloyd George's War-time Ministry of Munitions, Secretary Hore-Belisha achieved by appointing Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, to the additional post of Master General of the Ordnance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Belisha Purge | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Whatever Tobacco Road has, it is something other than the sentimentality of Abie's Irish Rose, or of Lightnin' (1,291 performances). It is physically and verbally as dirty as any play U. S. playgoers have seen. In 13 cities, from Albuquerque, N. Mex. to Boston, Mass., its producers have had to pay lawyers to fight local censorship. In Chicago, where a brief filed in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the play "a garbage pail of indecent dialogue and degenerate exhibitionism," legal defense cost nearly $75,000. As advertising it was cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Birthday | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

When the tumult and the shouting die away from the palazzo Venezia where Mussolini recently announced his withdrawal from the League of Nations, his action will be seen as merely another maneuver aimed at improving Italy's bargaining position in the world. Although the implications of this action are great, it is not in itself a serious step. Italy has since May of last year been far from Geneva. Nevertheless, the breach between the "isms" and democracy has been widented, and the necessity of cooperation between the great democracies is more urgent than ever before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...measure of the Goldcoasters, they are assured of at least a tie for the championship. The Dunster lineup so far has been as follows: Lipsitt, c.; Kinnicutt, p.; Woodward, 1b.; McDonald, 2b.; Merrill, 3b.; Ayres, s.s.; Noyes, s.f.; Philbrick, l.f.; Doughty, r.f.; and Fels, e.f., Clapp and McCarty have seen action as substitutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...woman she said and left. Pablo said go on reading. I said no you must go after your wife, he said oh I said oh. and he left and until this year ... we did not see each other again but now he has left his wife and we have seen each other again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Success Story | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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