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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minneapolis was isolationist: let Britain stop Hitler. President Roosevelt's interventionist policy was appraised as largely bluff, and approved as such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Contours | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...nothing on earth can stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Gridirony | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...ledgerdemain, ousted from the Reichsbank presidency in January to make way for Nazi inflationists, embarked on a world-circling vacation trip. Last week he arrived in Bombay, India, tush-tushed reports that he had come to barter for Indian cotton. Surprisingly unsanguine, he said of Britain's stop-Hitler alliances: "We will do our best when the time comes. . . . We will give them a good fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Wizard's Words | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 314 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...amounted to $17,760,000 annually. Now the brilliantly lighted "Arcade," that in 1907 housed 300 girls, is closed. In the back room of the Budweiser Saloon on Douglas Street, tough Tom Dennison bossed city politics, fought Mayor Ed Smith, won after Smith had been half-killed trying to stop a lynching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landmarks | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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