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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Simultaneously with this British story, the secret radio of the German Freedom Party broadcast that Big Nazi Julius Streicher, chief Jew-baiter of Hitler & Co., quarreled last week with Hermann GÖring over their respective scales of living, that Streicher had been flung into a concentration camp, saved from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Heavy Blows | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

In 1933 a disheartened young actor who had pounded Manhattan's pavements far oftener than he had trod its boards saw some kids swapping candy for marbles, and got an idea. Thereupon young Robert Porterfield, with fire in his eye, a dollar in his pocket and 21 famished actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Actors and Hams | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Last week, its Abingdon season over, the Barter Theatre paid its third annual visit to Manhattan. In chain-store-fed Manhattan there were nine cash customers to one barterer. But the box office accepted a gallon of wine, tubes of toothpaste, some rayon underwear, size 36 and from Drama Critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Actors and Hams | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

At that the crew rebelled. They wanted Captain Borkowski or nobody. They did not want to go to Canada and carry munitions to Britain. Moreover, there was some back pay due them. They would not sail. Police were summoned.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ship Without a Country | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Best bets for swift, sure crossing were the U. S. Lines or Pan American Airways. Pan American Clippers still flew twice a week, but they were booked heavily weeks ahead. U. S. Lines operated on full schedules, stepped up their sailings to evacuate 5,000 U. S. citizens still stranded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: On No Schedule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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