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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still more money for a bigger Big Navy means that he favors a "two-ocean navy." That phrase, said the President, is a beautiful slogan, meaningless in practice. Then he turned to a press-conference guest, Publisher Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News, said the same thing applies to that gentleman's favorite epigram ("Two Ships For One"). What the U. S. must have, the President went on, is a Navy big enough for its maximum, varying defense needs in any ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Beautiful Slogans | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...known that the Communist element has taken over this country, we don't have to investigate the damn thing, we know it. The animal we must get is the one that keeps them alive - the International Bankers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Comes the Revolution | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Noting that 23 of 71 Bund units listed by Witness Kuhn were concentrated in and near New York City, Congressman Starnes wondered out loud whether this was because of the aircraft and naval manufacturing plants handy for sabotage in that area. Cried Mr. Kuhn: "That's the same thing Lipshitz said. You know who Lipshitz is? That's Walter Winchell. Lipshitz is his real name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Proletarian Detour | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...whole thing was over in 30 seconds. After that only a dark cloud of smoke was visible. Royal Oak had disappeared, while Repulse listed heavily forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Eight weeks ago His Excellency the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor General of India, committed India to a new war. Silently, without overt enthusiasm but also without complaint, India fell in line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest jewel in her crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Of Time and the Measure | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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