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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri - a field goal against the New Deal in the renomination of Senator Bennett Champ Clark. This adverse score was light because Senator Clark was not actively fought by Roosevelt & Co., and his two 100% New Deal opponents were worthy political nobodies. The heaviness (400,000 majority) of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Six Primaries | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

This week, as the heat lessened, the Rightists launched one of the most powerful assaults of the war. Along a ten-mile stretch on the farthest inland portion of the Ebro front, the Rightists hammered their way forward aided by strafing planes, hurled the Leftists back across the river and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Distracting Franco | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

The twelve judges (whose superiors could have quashed the charges before the trial began) evidently concluded that Colonel Giffin was a drinker but not a drunkard, set him back from No. 611 to 711 in the current list of 962 lieutenant colonels, left him in the army, eligible for his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Twelve Sabres | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Japanese infantry, slogging up the swampy banks of the Yangtze, supported by Japanese river gunboats and bombing planes, last week took the famed Chinese pottery centre, Kiukiang. their objective for the past month. In joyous terms, as though announcing a victory, the Chinese press boasted of the enormous quantities of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Asparagus & Oatmeal | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Swiss guides agreed that the 1938 invaders had no better chance than their predecessors. From the hotel terrace at Kleine Scheidegg, a mile below, curious tourists and anxious natives watched the climbers through telescopes. For three days they watched them, inching their way like tiny black spiders up a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Subdued Ogre | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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