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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Eclipse? Events had not moved sufficiently far this week to determine whether the new order means a fresh eclipse of the Storm Troops. Their power waned greatly after the "Blood Purge" (TIME, July 9, 1934), but in 1935 strongly waxed again. Somewhat of an enigma, Adolf Hitler keeps Germans guessing at many things. For example, the law concentrating all power in the Realmleader authorizes him to indicate how his successor is to be chosen and implies that he must do so. Yet he continues to delay. Nowadays he even delights in oratorical passages implying with throbbing pathos that...
Last week closed another notorious shipwreck scandal, that of the S. S. Vestris, which went down in a storm with no persons off the Virginia Capes seven years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Decided a Federal Court in Manhattan: The disaster was an "act of God" for which Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., operators, and Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., owners, need pay no more than the $500,000 they have already given claimants...
...King was born Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha. Very unobtrusively in His Majesty's funeral escort this week moved His Royal Highness Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha in Germany, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland and a Gruppenführer of Nazi Storm Troops...
...Attorney-General under President Taft, stanch advocate of the League of Nations; of a heart attack; in a Manhattan taxicab. In 1929 he headed President Hoover's National Commission on Law Observance and Law Enforcement. The 286-page report, issued in 1931, equivocated on Prohibition, aroused a storm of controversy, both wets and drys claiming victory. None of the recommendations became...
...engagement with her, he feigns a heart attack, has a pal (Stuart Erwin) pilot his run. In accordance with best make-believe traditions the pal strikes fog, and, with radio out of commission, bashes through high tension wires, squashes a hangar, dies. After considerable high jinks, Davis braves a storm to test a de-icer invention crashes to his death a slightly tarnished Hero...