Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Appropriation sub-committee dealing with military affairs last week had Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh interrupt his study of U. S. air facilities (TIME, May 8) to tell (in secret session) what he knew about aerial Europe. Witness Lindbergh, in a dark suit, dark tie, turned out to be a nice fellow who had flown German planes, knew they were fast but had not been allowed to use airspeed indicators. The German planes he saw were not so elaborately made as U. S. craft, could not haul bombs across the Atlantic. He told so little (scarelines in newspapers notwithstanding) that...
...skeptical at the parade might well have wondered how "free" Spain was when they saw 10,000 Italian troops, led by the veteran General Gastone Gambara, and 5,000 of the German Condor Legion pass by.* And one look at El Caudillo's uniform would tell them that Spain was still far from "one." It was a "compromise" uniform. On his head was the red boina (beret) worn by the conservative, monarchy-loving Carlists. Under his Army campaign blouse was the blue shirt of the Falangists, or Spanish Fascists, deadly political enemies of the Carlists...
...Washington has solemnly pondered the U. S. Youth Problem. This group (16 eminent persons headed by Owen D. Young) is the American Council on Education's American Youth Commission. It has spent its four years mainly in gathering facts and issuing reports such as its famed Youth Tell Their Story (TIME, June 6) on Youth's education, jobs, play, health, morals, mental attitude. Disheartened by such facts as an average two-year gap between school and job, the Commission has lately found fresh food for worry: increasing conflict between oldsters and youngsters, which is likely to divert...
...American Youth Commission and Director Reeves believe that the Texas high-school youngsters who graduated last year with the slogan: "WPA, here we come," are not typical of U. S. Youth. They prefer to tell about the sandier college class which was told by its history professor that he planned to run for police commissioner of a university town but expected to be defeated by the city machine. The class went out and got him elected...
...Dear Joe. . . . Idle dollars profit no man. . . . We have mastered the technique of creating necessary credit; we have now to deal with the problem of assuring its full use. . . ." The substance of the letter was: Tell us the answers to depression...