Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would regard as an ideal state of affairs is an Eastern Europe in which the Soviet Union and Germany were continually mad at but not fighting each other. A cynical and unscrupulous latter-day Talleyrand, Colonel Beck believes in playing all horses at one time, but putting no great amount of money on any one. The "ironclad" alliance with France is still theoretically good, but so are the German and Russian non-aggression treaties. In a Franco-German war one of them would have to be broken, but that does not trouble the conscience of Colonel Beck. He plays...
...central problem of the papal election was to select a pope who was, above all else, a statesman. Pacelli was the obvious choice. His natural flair for diplomacy, coupled with the vast amount of training in practical politics that a cardinal must undergo, made him the best choice for the papacy at this particular hour. Besides holding the titular Archbishopric of Sardis, he was Papal Regent, as well as Secretary of State to the Holy See. In the last capacity especially he had served his church well...
...Hygiene Department has hired a special doctor to do the rounds in the dormitories. Most of the sickness is respiratory and there's a fairly large amount of intestinal "grip...
Doctors in the Hygiene Department say that students have no cause for worry over the increased amount of illness. The influenza and "grip" reported is not a virulent variety. As one doctor remarked, "If you're going to get, you're going to get, and there is no point in fussing about...
Last week TIME'S Index of Business Conditions was again off a minuscule amount-from 98.8 to 98.5. The public's spending for trade purposes held steady, but spending in big cities was sharply off, due to the lack of financing activity. There was a slight indication of increased borrowing by businessmen for inventory purposes...