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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society. Proud, shy, intellectual, Croly suffered agonies of embarrassment interviewing any stranger, virtual torment when impassioned liberals appeared. Despite a soft, almost whispered voice, he dominated liberal gatherings, New Republic luncheons, was deferred to not only by force of intellect but of character. No Robespierre, he had good friends among the Bourbons (one of them was a New York Stock Exchange ex-president). His ideas included a thorny explanation of U. S. history which, expounded in his best book, The Promise of American Life, in 1909, has defied simplification ever since. A conscientious but seldom an inspired writer, he painfully...
...break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers, C. N. A. C. flies Douglases, and both use German Telefunken wireless compasses and direction-finders-among the best in the world...
...have their eyes on Rumania and, although Russia's swift move into southern Poland kept Germany from Rumania's boundary, less than two months ago Nazi agents in Rumania assassinated Premier Armand Calinescu and attempted a coup in Bucharest. Meantime, Russia continues to stir up Communist agitation among Rumanian peasants. Meantime, Britain and France-who have guaranteed Rumania's borders and own a big part of her oil wells-compete against the German trade agreement for a greater share of Rumanian produce...
...favorite phrase among Italian Fascisti is "changing of the guard." It refers to a supposedly fixed policy of rotating the Party's big men in the State's big jobs; actually it is usually used to make crucial political shifts seem casual and routine. Last week, when Italy's hierarchy was violently shaken up, the phrase was shouted loud on Rome's seven hills. But no amount of inspired pooh-poohing could make the changes unimportant...
Meantime Canada's air industry, too, will be spurred and expanded. Canada will build bodies into which will go U. S. or British engines. Head of Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd., a company formed to parcel out contracts among its six affiliates, is Paul Fleetford Sise, no airman but chosen on his business record (president, Northern Electric Co. of Canada) as just the right sort of wealthy, urbane, widely acquainted executive to do a Dominion...