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...present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled by the fleets of the nine Nyon nations- Britain and France doing most of the work. Although Britain was willing to court Italy by offering her the patrol of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the space between Corsica, Sardinia and Italy's shin, Italy indignantly rejected the offer as "unequal." Submarines attacking neutral merchant ships in these patrolled lanes, "contrary to the rules of international law as laid down in the London Naval Treaty of 1930" would be immediately hunted down and sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Nine to Nyon | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...hired other help, refused to accede to strikers' demands. All summer the strike dragged on, marked only by such minor incidents as an abortive attempt by picketers to float propaganda balloons up past the studio windows, by the arrest of a few female strikers on such charges as shin-kicking, biting a police sergeant in the arm. In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than 500 theatres, had banned Fleischer cartoons pending settlement of the strike. Attorneys for Paramount Pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye Boycott | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...Author. Like his aspiring hero Harry Patterson, Clyde Brion Davis "has all his life been trying to unscrew the in-scrutable." Described as having "a vaccination scar on the left arm, a hand grenade scar on the back of the neck, a horse kick on the right shin, a mole on the left cheek," 42-year-old Author Davis has been a steamfitter's helper, chimney sweep, furnace repair man, electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent at Sea | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Followed by an automobile driven by a friend, James F. Gerrity '39 and Francis W. Scofield '40 ran seven of the 26 grueling miles of the B. A. A. Marathon yesterday. Leading 30 contestants at the time, the Crimson plodders were forced to withdraw because of indigestion, leg and shin cramps, blisters, fallen arches, and various other ailments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Marathoners Forced to Toss in Towel After Grim Plod of 7 Miles of Grueling Grind | 4/20/1937 | See Source »

Putting his Philadelphia Athletics through their training paces in Mexico City, 74-year-old Manager Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy ("Connie Mack") was hit in the right shin by a ball, injured so painfully that he was whisked by train to a San Antonio hospital on a stretcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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