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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More embarrassing to Earl Browder was an admission he let slip that he traveled through Europe during the last two years on a false U. S. passport. Asked to tell what name he had traveled under, Comrade Browder declined to answer on the ground that doing so might tend to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Children of Moscow | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

On a clear cool afternoon, Tuesday, August 4, 1914, a grave, spare, rather homely North Carolinian entered the courtyard before the massive grey British Foreign Office on Downing Street. He turned to the right, passed the guards, walked down a broad ornate corridor, passed through a large oak door into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week Joe Kennedy had already shuttered and barred the palatial Embassy house at No. 14 Prince's Gate (donated to the U. S. in 1921 by J. P. Morgan) and moved to a country house away from the terror of bombs. Thence each morning he drove into London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Their feelings were understandable. Fresh in their memories was the scene when the torpedo struck: oil spurting into the air from exploded tanks; the bodies of firemen hurtling through a hatch; seasick, half-naked passengers rushing for the decks; and later, when the lifeboats were launched, passengers and crew picking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Angry Athenians | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Meantime, the duty of Sire Kennedy and of U. S. Minister John Cudahy at Dublin was to determine and report just how the Athenia was sunk. Unshakable, unanimous belief of all hands was that a torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Angry Athenians | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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