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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awed, TIME concedes that the weight of evidence lies with Anthropologist White; reaffirms its decision to use the form "spit-&-image" when occasion demands; drops this controversy...
...that behind Franklin Roosevelt's ringing, full-voiced abandonment of traditional U. S. isolationism at Chicago three weeks ago was the gentle, tutorial lisp of Cordell Hull, believe also that Pupil Roosevelt spoke more strongly than his adviser intended. Carefully avoiding expressions like "quarantine" and "concerted effort," whose use by the President jolted many a diplomat, Oldster Hull gave his measured definition of a changing U. S. foreign policy...
...with enthusiasm. For them Gijón's surrender meant an end of bombs and shellfire, most of all it meant food. Even before the fall of Bilbao, Generalissimo Franco discovered that food, of which his part of Spain has plenty, was the best Rightist propaganda he could use. So last week trucks loaded with bread, sausages, corn and rice started rolling toward Gijón from Vitoria and Burgos even before the Rightist requetés entered the town. An official note of surrender was sent to Salamanca signed by Colonel Franco (no relation...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Faye Lippmann; from Pundit Walter Lippmann; charging extreme cruelty; in Bradenton, Fla. Said Mrs. Lippmann's petition: "Lippmann is shrewd and quick in his mental processes, commands a vocabulary practically unlimited, is a facile veteran in the use of invective and development of criticism, a phase of his equipment that he constantly uses in administering verbal punishment on complainant...
...telephone and although it is listed in the telephone directory of Vatican City as number 101, no one can call him. The apparatus is so constructed that when the number is dialed, the Pope's telephone does not ring. . . . The Pope has surrendered to the use of the fountain pen for signing all his documents, although he unfailingly dips the pen into the inkwell before applying it to the paper. . . . No one ever thinks of filling the pen but the inkwell is always filled. . . . In the Papal State the projection of films is prohibited. The Pope never sees even...