Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dark" continents. In fact, he seemed to suggest a new principle for evaluating countries or regions-a sort of sliding obscurity scale-without making it clear how it would be applied. The standards of obscurity are historically fickle. Czechoslovakia and Poland seemed fairly obscure to many Americans in the 1930s, but events there led to World War II. Greece was an off-Broadway tragedy after World War II until Harry Truman decided to commit U.S. power there to stop a Communist takeover. Today, obscurity may be gently, even favorably, applied to such non-countries as Andorra, such splinter countries...
...need not have been. Austrians had clung to their "Red-Black" coalition-giving the chancellorship to the People's Party and the presidency to the Social ists - because the mere idea of two-party competition recalled the civil strife of the 1930s and the subsequent German takeover. But in recent months the two parties had frequently reached deadlock over the People's Party's at tempt to trim funds for state-owned enterprises. Then, after the March election, Socialist Boss Bruno Pittermann presented his party's demands for going along with coalition: continued control...
Dirigibles still evoke vivid memories of disaster-the stunning tragedies of the 1930s that destroyed Germany's Hindenburg, Britain's R-101, and America's Akron and Macon, and caused great loss of life...
They were talking about Cheetah, Manhattan's newest and noisiest fun house, which roared into life last week with the growl and din of a gigantic concrete mixer. It had a familiar look, a return to the big, brash scene of the 1930s marathon dance halls, and on opening night some 2,000 invited guests pushed through the door of the Broadway and 53rd Street site known to their parents as the Riviera Terrace and, before that, the Arcadia Ballroom...
Died. Roger D. Lapham, 82, businessman-politician who in the 1930s, as president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship line, won the grudging respect of Harry Bridges' West Coast dockers for his tough, fair-minded negotiations, a quality that helped him as mayor of San Francisco (1944-48), where he successfully cleaned out entrenched machine politics, but failed to secure for the city the permanent location of the U.N.; after a fall; in San Francisco...