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Across the Sound. Whistling and whining across Long Island Sound, the big wind hit New England with increased fury. (Harvard observatory at Blue Hill, Mass. registered gusts of 186 m. p. h.) At Bridgeport, New Haven and New London, the storm waves hurled shipping into the streets and across railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Abyss from the Indies | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Geneva newshawks spent the week pecking their hardest at Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in efforts to get him to say that, even if France did NOT aid Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union would do so anyhow. In a very long speech Commissar Litvinoff went no further than to divulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crisis & The League | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Most of the political parties and 60% of Poles entitled to vote boycotted the last election in 1935, because the "Polish Republic" is a mere façade for Army Dictatorship, although technically under the Constitution dictatorial powers are vested in a civilian professor of chemistry, President Ignacy Moscicki. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Unity for War? | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

According to astronomical theory no force external to the earth can produce large changes in its rotation on its axis. As for surface changes on the earth. Dr. Brown rules them out. Older theories held that accumulations of ice and snow at the poles might slow up the earth'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earth-Pulse | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Cambridge politics are a funny thing, as those as yet uninitiated to them will soon find out. This summer the boys at the poles were still at it.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unwilling Cambridge Politician Pushed For Office in Face of Stigmatic Slogan | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

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