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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outposts were telephoned; the only noise reported on the frontier was that of Russian soldiers practicing trench-mortar firing and hand-grenade throwing. President of Finland's National Defense Council Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim toured the border that day and heard of no firing. A Finnish Government spokesman concluded that the entire incident was "completely untrue." At Helsinki the Government had no intention of ordering troops to retire from a frontier fairly jammed with Red Army contingents. To withdraw from back of their fortified line would be something like the French, on the Western Front, evacuating the Maginot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Brazen Provocation | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura began to think of a "permanent arrangement." Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma called correspondents in to tell them: "We are anxious to settle pending questions and we hope that Russia reciprocates our desire in all sincerity." Domei News Agency, which plays Little Sir Echo to the Foreign Office, advocated concluding a non-aggression treaty with Russia "without paying the slightest attention to displeasure felt and loudly voiced by Britain and the U. S." This week Ambassador Smetanin had an audience with the Son of Heaven, H. I. M. Hirohito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...YORK--An "attack" on officials of the New York Stock Exchange by an unidentified spokesman for the Securities & Exchange Commission provided Stock Market traders with a lame excuse today to lighten their holdings...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/22/1939 | See Source »

...weeks no correspondent has seen the Prime Minister. Only official statements about the war that Canadians hear regularly are broadcast by an anonymous spokesman of the Department of National Defense. In a dull, flat, impersonal monotone he tells the public what its Government is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canadian Secrecy | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...strong indication of the way out for railroads already bankrupt, hogtied in the Courts by common stockholders' claims, came last week from the Supreme Court. The Court was unanimous and its spokesman was Mr. Justice William Orville Douglas, who first made his jurisprudential name as a Yale Law School professor by analyzing bankruptcies for the SEC. Actually the case did not concern a railroad at all. It concerned obscure Los Angeles Lumber Products Company, Ltd. and was chosen as a kind of Schechter case for a New Deal test of Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Specialists | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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