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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willie Bioff took Hollywood into camp four years ago, when he arrived as the representative of the A. F. of L. stagehands' potent President George Browne (TIME, Aug. 21). Known and printed was Willie Bioff's record as a Chicago hoodlum, his rise as George Browne's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweet Willie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The defense scored heavily; the prosecution's auditor admitted an error in calculations of the alleged thefts; all but five charges against Fritz Kuhn were dismissed. The jury heard Bund members testify that under the "leader principle" Kuhn could spend the money any way he liked-but not on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Raging at Mr. Chamberlain's announcement, the German Government charged that Simon Bolivar's sinking was a British job horridly staged as excuse for an export embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Full Throttle | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Black Moons | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

In his week-end war speech to the Empire, Prime Minister Chamberlain declared: "Already we know the secret of the magnetic mine and we shall soon master it as we have already mastered the U-boat." But these words went out to the tune of more titanic explosions, under the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Black Moons | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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