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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Governor's power to establish such military rule, under his own discretion, was sustained in the lower courts and was never properly fought out through the higher courts. Labor was, of course, opposed to this semi-Fascist arrangement, but for various reasons did not make, by any means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

After the broad Neutrality debates were finished last month, Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked the State Department whether an embargo on U. S. war materials for Japan would violate the treaty of commerce and navigation which has bound the U. S. and Japan since 1911...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dead Hare, Weeping Fox | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Since the Civil War, most news from Spain has been written from afar, contributed by correspondents who 1) could not get in, 2) could not find out much if they did, 3) did not like what they found out. Last week Carey Longmire, open-eyed correspondent of the Paris New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beware the Cigaret! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

But in North Spain one man in three is in uniform, in Madrid one man in five; theatres shut down for two minutes at 11 p. m. for an official news broadcast and the national anthem; bullfights are suspended half way through for cheers for Franco, the anthem and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beware the Cigaret! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Ironic to Correspondent Longmire were posters warning Spanish women who had just passed through a bloody civil war of unsuspected dangers of peace. "Spanish women!" read one, "Beware of the cocktail! Beware of the one-piece bathing suit! Beware of the cigaret!" At San Sebastian, fashionable beach city, he admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beware the Cigaret! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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