Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Martinez Anido, Minister of Public Order, who for the past ten months has headed Franco's secret police, his hard bitten Guardia Civil, his frontier and highway guards. He was for seven years Minister of the Interior under Spain's late Dictator, Primo de Rivera (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), suppressed Communists and Anarchists in Barcelona with such vigor that they retaliated by nicknaming him. "The Epileptic Pig." His nature has not softened...
With Japanese last week still forbidding foreign correspondents to go to captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.), the Chicago Daily News received last week one of the best eyewitness accounts thus far of the "Nanking atrocities" from its Far East Ace Reporter A. T. Steele...
...Manhattan last Sunday, the venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie installed its eighth rector, Rev. Charles Albert William Brocklebank, 33, lately of Christ Church in Easton, Md., called to succeed Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie (TIME, Dec. 13). For Episcopalians who wondered if Mr. Brocklebank would dabble in heterodox ritual, as did voluble, mystical Dr. Guthrie, the new rector's pre-installation statements were tactfully soothing. Said he: "The contributions of Dr. Guthrie were so unique and so utterly dependent upon his own magnificent personality and breadth of knowledge that it would be folly...
...months ago Chairman William O. Douglas of the Securities & Exchange Commission ticked off the "club" aspects of the New York Stock Exchange, declared that "no element of the Casino" could be allowed to survive, recommended such changes as hiring a paid president (TIME, Dec. 6). President Charles Gay of the exchange hastened to appoint a committee under Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co. to consider Bill Douglas' suggestions...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TIME, Dec...