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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria and Albert steaming up and down eight lanes of sheer, breathtaking Sea Power. Twenty-one-gun salutes rang agreeably in George V's ears-for the thunder of a three-pounder is not noise but music to His seagoing Majesty. That night the British Fleet was "lit up like a Portuguese Carnival"-as an admiring Portuguese diplomat remarked- but next day the King's delighted subjects were left behind, the floating grandstands were signaled not to follow, and His Majesty led the fleet to sea in war formation, flying from his yacht a signal meaning "THE ENEMY...
Jolly Berlin crowds in the brightly-lit Kurfürstendamm nightlife district had more fun last week than these beery, sausage-stuffed revelers have had in months. Well-dressed German women and their swank, duel-scarred escorts vied with shopgirls and mechanics in spurring on with laughter, cheers and songs the most savage Jew hunt since those which immediately followed Adolf Hitler's elevation to power by the ballots of 52.5% of all German voters (TIME, April...
...guard's story is that the two Negro convicts-Barnes received stolen goods; Shropshire had driven while drunk-were put in solitary because they refused to work. The Negroes say that they were manacled upright ten hours a day for nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went out, that at night they slept without fire, with only scraps of blankets for covers. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes had plenty of heat, plenty of covers. The Negroes say their feet froze because it was wintry co!d. The chain-gang bosses...
Only a few years after Colonel Otis acquired the Times his eye had lit on an aggressive, cool-headed circulation hustler named Harry Chandler, a young fellow-Yankee from New Hampshire who had quit Dartmouth to go West for his health. Harry Chandler married the boss's daughter, was soon high in the saddle as the Times's general manager. From this vantage he looked with considerable anxiety on his father-in-law's savage enmity toward union labor...
...Judd, H. M. Kidder, D. H. Kimball, W. A. Kirstein, F. A. Lavey, L. S. Levenson, S. R. Linscott, D. R. Lit, D. P. McAllester, D. B. Malone, T. V. N. Marsters, C. C. Means, C. D. Mietzelfeld, W. J. Moore, J. L. Morrisson, W. Morss, A. W. Nelson, C. S. Oakman, D. E. O'Reilly, W. R. Pierson, E. D. Piper, E. H. Porter, J. Preston, D. Prouty, J. A. Rich, C. R. Richmond, E. H. Risley, S. W. Rudnick, E. L. Saenger, H. F. Schmidt, R. W. Scott, R. S. Shaw, C. C. Smith, R. I. Smith...