Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unavoidably Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada had to bring it up the next day. Author of an amendment to the Spend-Lend Bill, to restore prevailing wage-rates on WPA projects, he admitted his cause had been "greatly impaired." The Senate quickly slapped down his amendment...
...Received from Senator La Follette a bill to outlaw spies, strikebreakers, guns and gas in industrial disputes. Fruit of two and one-half years of investigating, $100,000 expense, this bill was called by its author, with unconscious humor "several decades overdue...
Excuse for last week's action was that France could not afford to hold a general election, with its attendant publicity of the divisions of French political thought, while it was engaged in a "white war" with the Axis powers. Said Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, author of the French three-year economic plan which will also run until 1942: "Today ... on the threshold of the most perilous period of our history, I am sure that nobody would do anything to weaken France by dividing her. The bloodless war which is being forced on us, we can and must...
...Author Vicki Baum this week moved her Grand Hotel from Europe to the Orient. Her scene: a Shanghai hotel, in the summer of 1937. Her cast of ten carefully disparate characters: a Chinese banker, his Occidentalized son, a refugee Jewish surgeon who had won the Iron Cross, a svelte White Russian married to a drunken English millionaire, a bespectacled little Japanese journalist, a trained nurse from Iowa and her self-pitying fiance from Hawaii, a tuberculous coolie, a young German musician turned opium addict...
...Novelist Baum's usual chile con carne ("her eyes went on a pleasure cruise up and down him"), seasoned with local color, a but-life-goes-on philosophy. Curtain sentence: "What must happen, happens." Thanks to Japanese bombs that fell on the Shanghai Hotel when war came, Author Baum's ending has more finality than usual...