Word: triede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> The Senate subcommittee voted to restore life to FTP. Actress Bankhead's Uncle John telegraphed her: "I tried 24 hours to find a weak place in your masterly argument. . . . Check me off as voting for the project. . . ."
Why did she sink? Oliver Naquin as well as the board tried to get at the answer as fast and finally as possible. By Navy practice, he was recorded as the defendant. This technical procedure was very real to him, for any evidence or finding that misconduct or negligence had...
Tientsin. Having backed down at Swatow, the Japanese military at Tientsin, where they claimed the British were harboring anti-Japanese terrorists (TIME, June 26), became ever bolder. Live wire encircled the British and French Concessions, had by week's end killed a cat and a coolie. As food got...
Sanctions? As the mounting list of indignities reached the light of print in London, British ire rose. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, asked in Parliament what economic reprisals were planned, answered: "I do not think we have yet reached that stage." But the Prime Minister did refer to the "high-handed...
Best hammock reading so far this season is The Brandons, a deft tale of pixillated English gentry. Author Thirkell (August Folly, Pomfret Towers) is the at tractive, 49-year-old granddaughter of pre-Raphaelite Painter Burne-Jones, a cousin of ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and of Rudyard Kipling, who...