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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice of his successor. Jose Pedraza was also a sergeant when Sergeant Batista headed the non-commissioned officers' revolt which ended the rule of onetime President Gerardo Machado. Chief of Police of Havana and Military Governor of Havana Province as well, Colonel Pedraza was until last week Inspector General of the Cuban Army under Colonel Batista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batista Ballyhoo | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...WIND OF BLAME - Georgette Heyer-Crime Club ($2). No one cares much when bibulous, cantankerous Wallis Carter is shot on the English estate owned by his rich ex-chorus-girl wife. Though ingenious, Inspector Hemingway's sleuthing is secondary to the bright antics of Author Heyer's genteel screwballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in November | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in November | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...proud of being a Spaniard now that the Spanish people are fighting to save their own culture." Luis Mira, former professor at the University of Barcelona and inspector of psychiatry in the Spanish Republican Army, said at a meeting sponsored by the Teachers' Union in behalf of the Spanish Refugee Campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA SHOWS WEAKNESS OF FRANCO'S REGIME | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

...heard of, Hermann Göring, and one very few have heard of, Erhard Milch. Though he has kept closest surveillance over the Air Force, Göring has in recent months taken over many outside duties, and the real propeller of the force is now Erhard Milch, Inspector-General of the Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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