Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane and train from all over the U. S. gathered the Roosevelt clan, some two dozen strong-with newest grandson, eight-month-old John Roosevelt Boettiger, coming East to take his first look at his famous grandfather. Ready as always was Grandmother Eleanor, her activities for the holiday week scheduled to the minute-six public Christmas tree ceremonies, three religious services, three celebrations in New York City, three separate White House children's parties...
...daily); 75 trucking lines; 845 factories (textiles, chemicals, fertilizer, furniture, paper, candy); 3,833 retail stores, 809 wholesale stores (annual net sales: $465,316,000); 81 public schools, 33 universities and colleges (total enrollment: 77,282); the South's busiest telephone exchange (636,000 long distance calls per month); 2,500 branches of national firms doing business in the South; a 221-square-mile "metropolitan" area, whose heart and centre is famed Five Points (where Peachtree intersects four other streets...
Early this month the Nazi press in Germany trained its biggest propaganda guns on Foreign Minister Sandier, accusing him, among other things, of "pro-British" actions. But that was not what removed him. Long had Foreign Minister Sandier advocated fortifying, with Finnish cooperation, the strategic Aland Islands guarding the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. He especially urged it when Russia began her diplomatic pressure on Finland. Moreover, Mr. Sandier was the spokesman of those friends of Finland who believed that Scandinavian neutrality was indivisible...
...German diplomats and consuls in Poland of "injustices" and "atrocities" suffered by expatriate Germans at the hands of Poles. The short second section, "The British War Policy," accusingly produces 38 documents to prove that Great Britain, after Munich, did not halt her rearmament program. This section was published last month (TIME, Dec. n). Section three, "Germany's Efforts to Secure Peaceful Relations With Its Neighbors," traces the activities of the Führer "to achieve good relations" with Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Lithuania. The Führer is quoted (cracking back when British...
...this year U. S. department store sales have been 5% over 1938. Last month they were up 6%. Week ending Dec. 2, with Christmas drawing near, they nose-dived a thumping 29% in Boston, 10% in New York City, 5% for the nation. Said the Retail Merchants Associated Board of Trade, Inc.: "We have blamed it on everybody...