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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow swore out a warrant for her estranged husband's arrest, when & if he should set foot in England. Her charge: The Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...managers were telephoning in reports, and statisticians were preparing to issue Bank of America's six-month financial statement. Few days before, six major Los Angeles banks, pleading hard times, cut their maximum interest rates on time and savings deposits from 2% to 1½%, but Mr. Giannini swore up & down he would not cut his. "A. P." did not need to, he boasted, for Bank of America was making its greatest profit in years, might make more money in 1938's first six months than any other U. S. bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Risks and Profits | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Dorchester, England, last week, items from the Hardy family collection were put up for auction, including two bits of Nelsoniana. One sentimental antiquarian bid nine guineas (about $47) for the manuscript of the Trafalgar prayer. Hottest bidding, however, was over a wisp of hair, which the auctioneer swore had been cropped from Nelson's pate by his vivacious and tenacious mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton. The seadog's wisp was knocked down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hero's Hair | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Chilled by this good start towards a labor war, both sides quickly sobered. Republican, antiC. I. O. Mayor Lee D. Schroy temporarily reduced police contingents around Goodyear, swore to put every officer in town on duty when the plant reopened after Decoration Day. But a scant few hours before the zero hour, U. R. W. leaders persuaded 3,000 rubber workers gathered in meeting to accept management concessions: 1) to enforce a seniority rule, 2) to negotiate for a written agreement, 3) to discuss wage adjustments. Next morning the rubber workers went peaceably to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Depression Phase | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...peasant leaders. There they lined up outside the temporary office of Lázaro Cárdenas, waited long hours to get a chance to tell Mexico's radical President how very loyal they were to him. Even those hitherto considered cool to Cárdenas' policies swore undying fealty, branded rebellious General Saturnino Cedillo "the most ungrateful traitor alive." In Mexico City, 27 State Governors assured Señor Cárdenas of their devotion. The Governors went so far as to assert, without offering evidence, that Cedillo was receiving support from foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Band Wagon | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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