Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, youthful, good-looking Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Reich Foreign Minister, pointed out Germany's deadly fear of Communism and her desire to see a stable government in Spain-i.e., to see Generalissimo Francisco Franco win the Spanish War. M. Bonnet got a quibbling answer when he asked Herr Ribbentrop point-blank whether Germany supported Italian claims to Tunisia (see below...
Unlike beefeating Britishers, an average Frenchman is not acutely Empire-minded, but last week Frenchmen from Algiers to Alsace took to the streets to protest against giving one square mile of French territory to Italy. This was France's answer to the "spontaneous" outcry in Rome's Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago that the French possessions of Tunisia, Corsica, Nice and Savoy be given to Italy...
...Called before the Dies Committee to answer charges that the Federal Theatre Project had Communistic leanings, FTP Director Hallie Flanagan was accused of quoting from "a Communist named Marlowe." Patiently she explained that the Communist was Christopher Marlowe...
...title suggests, a lighthearted comedy, but the bitter, twisted story of a modern Job. Sceneshifter Dan Clancy (Eddie Dowling) has been blinded in one eye, has lost his home, his job, his child, and been deserted by his wife. Literally searching for God to find an answer to his sufferings, he stumbles on a group of vaudevillians in a speakeasy. One of them has the sinister talent of worming the truth out of people, and drags from a dwarf and a ventriloquist their tragic, bleeding stories. Appalled by the knowledge of so much other suffering in the world, Clancy momentarily...
...Bennett got a court order tying up a $100,000 brokerage account of Dr. Coster's wife, Carol, on the ground that "she is in all probability in possession of funds which . . . may be ... derived from . . . fraudulent practices." That seemed to point to a possible answer to one question in the mystery: what happened to the money? Other questions remained unanswered. What the crude drug department's real business was, nobody knew. Whether there were any real warehouses where drugs or liquor might be cached, nobody knew. How long the crude drug department had been making false inventory...