Word: talking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Federal G-men last month captured Peter Anders, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Chicago greeting-card Manufacturer Charles Ross, took him from California to Chicago to be prosecuted by Mike Igoe's office. Candidate Igoe had himself photographed with Kidnapper Anders, got into the newsreels with a talk on Crime Does Not Pay. In Springfield, Boss Horner thereupon announced he would have nothing to do with Candidate Dieterich or Candidate Igoe, threw his support to Scott Lucas, who is now a Congressman...
...Talk of fortifying Singapore started almost as soon as Britain gained control of the island, but it came to little until the breakdown of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in 1921. Almost simultaneously Prime Minister David Lloyd George announced that a major naval base would be built at Singapore, years of puttering about with surveyors and dredging machines followed, but not until 1928 did work really begin. Later Australia and New Zealand, the Federated Malay States and the swarthy Sultan of Johore, whose land lies just beyond Singapore island, became sufficiently alarmed at Japanese imperialism to come through with contributions. Work...
Niemoller on Nazis. Whether or not it was "treason" for Pastor Niemoller to preach, write and talk as he has against the Nazi system, his published sermons* are undoubtedly among the most controversial ever preached. In Germany the Nazis claim to object only to what they call "Negative Christianity," claim to approve "Positive Christianity" (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Pastor Niemoller, in perhaps his most controversial sermon, boldly accused the Nazis of taking in this matter today exactly the line the Jews took when Christ was alive...
...ominous new Lubianka Prison in the heart of Moscow, carefully took him instead to a onetime Tsarist prison in the suburbs, Butyrskaya. There they found an airtight setup. U. S. Citizen Rubens, who appeared decently dressed in a zipper-closed U. S. frock, was not permitted to talk freely or be alone even for a moment with Washington's representatives. A Soviet official took charge, had Mr. Henderson ask questions which had to be translated into Russian, then after each question told U. S. Citizen Rubens whether she was permitted to answer that question or not. All questions...
...this address, Conant will go more fully into the problem of size of University enrollments, and will amplify his reasons for limited enrollment, first expressed in his Annual Report. The talk will be before the American Association of School Administrators...