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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this gave venerable Dr. Vladimir Matchek, democratically minded Croatian peasant leader, 'a powerful but dangerous weapon in his battle for Croatian rights. Three weeks ago he announced that Croatia would ask for German protection rather than continue to submit to Serbian rule. When Yugoslavian Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch began negotiations, in the midst of Balkan alarms, Dr. Matchek took time out to say what he thought of the people he was dealing with. Said he: "We Croatians are wholeheartedly for an agreement, but if none is reached we'll be obliged to go our separate ways. If the Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Spororum | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...tactics followed forthwith. In Manhattan Mr. Carey's union sued for an injunction to restrain A. F. of L. from boycotting (refusing to install or handle) electrical products made by C. I. O. workers. Thus Labor, by requesting an injunction, turned upon itself a favorite weapon of anti-union employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

These eulogistic claims of the deadliest weapon, pound for pound, ever devised by man, were studied last week by Manhattan stock salesmen who had never fired a shot in anger. They were planning neither to fight a war nor put down riots, but to sell 300,000 shares of stock (at $2.75 a share) in Thompson Automatic Arms Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUNITIONS: Chopper | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...most U. S. cinemaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangsters' weapon. The late black-browed John Dillinger, potbellied "Killer" Burke, the late Charlie Birger of Southern Illinois were virtuosos with the Thompson, called it, with utility in mind, a chopper. But gangsters got their choppers by stealing them from policemen who had found them wonderfully effective for erasing hoodlums from the public slate. For the Thompson, only a few ounces heavier than a Springfield rifle, is an amazingly potent weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUNITIONS: Chopper | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...notes are not the only weapon the Japanese have been using. Japanese military and naval spokesmen have "predicted" that Japan would soon find it "necessary" to send her marines into the Shanghai International Settlement to stamp out anti-Japanese "terrorism."* Flushed by their small but solid victory at Amoy, the three Western countries put on at Shanghai a joint demonstration of just what resistance Japan would meet in the Settlement should her armed forces try to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Safe Deposit Vault | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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