Word: 1930s
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Died. André Géraud, 92, Cassandra-like French columnist known as Pertinax (Latin for resolute); in Ségur-le-Château, France. In his daily columns in Echo de Paris, Pertinax in the 1930s warned about the danger of appeasing Hitler. When Nazi panzers crushed France in 1940, he escaped via Bordeaux on an English destroyer. In the U.S. during the war, he wrote his best-known work, The Gravediggers of France, a historical exposé of the men responsible for his country's fall...
...well-off teachers, students, and other white-collar workers, and some younger professional people--a Village Voice readership instead of a New York magazine one, the kind of people who'd have been in the radical, non-socialist or moderately socialist wing of a 1930s Popular Front. Most of the old-time Democrats don't think much of these people, but from Richard Daley on down they evidently feel that along with blacks and women they're needed to capture elections, and maybe that they're easily cajoled into doing so: "Let's go fishing," said Brecht's angler...
...Chairman Robert Strauss, the chief architect of the convention and engineer of compromise (see box next page). They agreed with Baltimore's Barbara Mikulski, who declared: "We must return to the policy of coalition; the new coalition of the 1960s must combine with the old coalition of the 1930s...
standards, but vivid memories of Nazi exploitation of the unemployed during the 1930s have made unemployment one of the nation's most sensitive subjects, and the outlook is growing more gloomy every day. Indeed, the government's five top economic advisers predict that unemployment will climb to 1 million or more by January or February; that would be the highest winter jobless total in 17 years. Equally worrisome is inflation, which is currently running at an annual rate...
...Ryan waged his own last battle against recurrent pain to complete A Bridge Too Far, a history of the disastrous 1944 airdrop at Arnhem, which was No. 2 on the bestseller lists when he died. ∎ Died. Rosemary Lane, 58, Hollywood's "Betty Coed" of the 1930s; of pulmonary obstruction and diabetes; in Hollywood. One of the "singing Lane sisters" who broke into movies with Bandleader Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Rosemary starred in the 1937 musical Varsity Show, appeared with Rudy Vallee in Gold Diggers in Paris, and Time Out for Rhythm. She also played in such popular...