Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brilliant, witty Jean Giraudoux, author of such ironical War novels as Suzanne and the Pacific and My Friend from Limousin, was named Commissioner for Information, a new office roughly corresponding to the propaganda ministry in totalitarian countries...
Like many another minister who comes to London these days, Mr. Nash wanted to borrow money. New Zealand's Minister of Finance, Mr. Nash is also the author and executor of a comprehensive economic plan designed to turn agricultural New Zealand into a nation which can at least partially produce its own manufactured goods, and thus be less dependent on world prices. Although realizing that New Zealand will not for a long time be able to supply all its wants, Minister Nash's idea is to build factories to enable the country to manufacture "secondary" articles...
Birthdays. Benito Mussolini, 56; George Bernard Shaw, 83, quietly, in London, England; Henry Ford, 76, quietly, in Dearborn, Mich.; Booth Tarkington, 70, quietly, in Kennebunkport, Me. (Informed that it was Mussolini's birthday, Author Tarkington observed: "I have led a nice quiet life, which is more than...
...Author Isherwood wrote most of the book: Auden's contribution is a sequence of 27 sonnets and a commentary in which left politics and a sense of personal disorder mingle in some coolly fluent, somewhat vague verses about war in China, sometimes rhymed...
...those heights Author Mann last week added a peak in the shape of massive, craggy, 786-page Henry, King of France, crammed with up-to-the-minute politics in 16th-Century dress, royal venery, papist deviltry and a necessary quota of ruffs and ruffians...