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...Paris, the Austrian's special train stopped at a tiny station and on the platform stood tall Premier Flandin with short Foreign Minister Laval beaming welcome. Out hopped Chancellor Schuschnigg with his Foreign Minister, morose Dr. Egon Berger-Waldenegg. Stepping into a sleek Renault all four statesmen sped through Paris, delivered Fascist Schuschnigg safe at the ornate Hotel Crillon while patient police kept the duped and battling Reds and Pinks at the Gare de l'Est as busy as they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: All or Nothing! | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Miami, Fla., Feb. 28--National Guardsmen sped tonight toward lower Matecambe Key where 400 war veterans were is revolt against living conditions on a government relief project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 3/1/1935 | See Source »

...lecturing. He was lecturing well, in fact he was lecturing brilliantly. Bent over the desks were hundreds of unfortunates absorbing learning willynilly, their flying fingers striving in vain to keep pace with the gush of dates and of treaties that flowed forth with immense speed. Through Marlberough's campaigns sped Mr. Perkins with flying jaw, through the contemporary Continental complications, through the peace settlements, through the founding of the Whigs and of the Tories, until at last the cornerstone on which the edifice hung was about to be placed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

...last week in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History an exultant message sped by telephone from the anthropology laboratories to the administrative offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Museums | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...24th Street at dusk, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau came to a steep, icy hill. At the top of the hill stood his young daughter Joan with a long bobsled. Mr. Morgenthau threw himself flat on the sled. Joan climbed on his back. Down the hill they sped, to stop in front of the Czechoslovakia!! Legation. Secretary Morgenthau & daughter trudged up the hill, zipped down again, coasted until dinner time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 11, 1935 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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