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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to the Reich. As in regular German elections, the opposition did not dare to campaign. The United Memel German Party won easily, claiming at least 26 of the 29 Diet seats. Said 50-year-old Horse Doctor Ernst Neumann, Führer of the Memel Germans: "We are still Lithuanian State citizens in name, but inwardly we no longer have any connection with Lithuania." Adolf Hitler did not think that last week was a propitious time to take over Memel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITHUANIA: Hell Memel! | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year-old daughter, Joan. . . . For Clark, Carole stopped, almost overnight, being a Hollywood playgirl. . . . Paulette still entertains her guests, when she wishes, on Charlie Chaplin's yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...break a leg during a race at Del Mar last summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer and looks as clumsy as Ichabod Crane on a horse. Johnny Adams has an extraordinary flair for getting the best out of the cheapest plater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jockey Race | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Though America is still far from clicking, retiring President Charles R. Hook felt justified in remarking: "I believe in all sincerity that our activities during the past year have brought industry and the Government substantially closer to mutual understanding, respect and cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Making America Click | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Cummings, who had gone to Bridgeport to pick up the scent, appeared before the Exchange's Stock List Committee to report. With him was Treasurer Thompson, no mean detective himself. Said Mr. Cummings : "The facts are really comparatively simple, but they're so darn fantastic that we still can't believe them." The fantastic facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Drug Mystery | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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