Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls' shoes, ranged them neatly side by side and prayed over them. "What did you say?" asked the District Attorney. "I said 'Lord forgive what I have done.' Then I went home to my wife." Sobbed Mrs. Dyer, "Albert couldn't have done this terrible thing. . . . We both loved children. We lost two babies...
...Nearest thing to a spokesman in Berlin for the gold billions in the new U. S. strongbox at Fort Knox, Ky. was distinguished-looking President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp., leader of the U. S. delegation and promptly-elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce. The June issue of Think, International Business Machines' house organ, modestly omits to mention that President Watson was presented to King George VI at a levee during the Coronation period, otherwise is a banner Coronation issue, crammed with 82 pictures of Coronation events and socialites. Facing a full-page picture...
...eyes of most U. S. businessmen, the Chamber of Commerce is important locally, the national Chamber of Commerce is a good thing but vaguely so, and the International Chamber of Commerce is also good but even vaguer. Germans last week had marked able President Watson as apt at least to consecrate an issue of Think to the Nazi Reich. They hoped he would speak up loudly in behalf of shipping some Kentucky gold to Germany, and they felt that as President of the I.C.C. he rated the new "Merit Cross" just created by Adolf Hitler and first bestowed on Benito...
Then and there Windsor-although not in living memory had a member of his Royal Family been goaded into doing such a thing-prepared a public reply to a public aspersion. Shortly the London Evening Standard, which strongly opposed abdication during the Constitutional Crises (TIME, Feb. 1), was authorized by Windsor to quote him thus...
With world headlines screaming the nearest thing to outbreak of a Russo-Japanese war, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies was last week a busy conciliator in Moscow, conferring with pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu and portly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff between the bouts of these two diplomats over a pair of uninhabited islands covered with swamp grass which seemed capable of setting Eastern Asia more or less aflame...