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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Bombay Independent Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's untouchables : "What else could the Viceroy have done under the circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Of Time and the Measure | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...already noticeable. The population (30,552) began trenching the talcum-powder beaches, the little green coves. Reserves of the Bermuda Volunteers were feverishly called up. Bermuda's familiar bicycles were mounted by furiously pedaling couriers in uniform. Letters both incoming and outgoing were rigidly censored (not yet done in Canada). Even women got busy on counterespionage. An innocent German hairdresser who has been on the island for 15 years was eyed with deep suspicion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Paradise at War | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...communication clumsily. In War II, when they have not been caught stupidly lying-as when they insisted the Ark Royal had been sunk, even though a U. S. naval attache lunched aboard her and found differently-they have artlessly suppressed information which would on the whole have done their cause good rather than harm. Last week Germany had yet to admit the loss of even one submarine in seven weeks' warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Earl Jones did not like the way the Zanesville morning Times-Recorder and evening Signal (both owned by Father William Oliver, Sons Orville Beck and Henry Clay Littick) reported what happened. Nor did he like it when the Litticks played up several suits against him-one for damage allegedly done by his mine wastes to adjoining lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 59-Day Wonder | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Swarthmore in 1893, when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross $43,717,000), 1933 its worst since 1909 (gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Business Builds | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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