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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Everyone is hearing a lot about building extra locks for the Panama Canal in case a lock was destroyed by air-attack from bombers [TIME, Aug. 28]. Could not the extra lock be put out of operation just as easily as the present one, if not the same day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

> Taxed but far from exhausted by two weeks of day-night vigil, the President journeyed to Hyde Park for a weekend rest. With his mother he drove through the rain to St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, where he heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson denounce Adolf Hitler, read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Drifting | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

In that year, he said, Stalin swallowed the U. S. party, cleaned out its personnel, put in his puppet Browder. To Browder's claim that funds no longer flowed through the Moscow pipe line, Witness Gitlow replied that they used to come at the rate of $100,000 a...

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

They That Take the Sword not only has a good chance of success because of new interest in 20th-Century Russian history, but also stands out as a good novel in its own right. It tells its bloody epic through plausible human (and inhuman) characters. Its hero, Sergei Kuskov, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russians As They Were | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Author Davies rates Clive's military audacity higher than his strategy, denies that Plassey was the decisive battle many have called it. He does not deny Clive repaid himself handsomely for his trouble. First fruits of Plassey for Clive were $1,170,000. Clive's fortune when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prelude to Suicide | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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