Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
President Benes believes that the "Fascintern" will collapse of its own armor-plated weight. He thinks the job of the democracies is to avoid war at almost any cost until time comes to their side. Eduard Benes is thus an optimist. He refuses to believe that Germany will attack his little State. His optimism he bases on three considerations...
...Down the Grenadierstrasse and Dragonerstrasse-both prominent Jewish streets-ran several hundred "Aryans" bent on pulling Jews out of their stores, painting their shopwindows with insulting signs. Schoolteachers lectured children not to associate with little Jews. On countless shopwindows appeared such inscriptions as "Jewish swine," "Out with the Jews," "Avoid this Jew," "The Jew- Our Sorrow!" "Jew, get out!" Whole streets were roped off while Jewish blocks were searched. More than 1,000 Jews were arrested, often for trivial reasons. Many Jews were sent to concentration camps. Long lines formed at the U. S. and British consulates for visas...
...Naziland, music by Jewish composers, performances by Jewish musicians, are strictly verboten. So that good Germans may know what music and which musicians to avoid, a Nazi Who's Who of Jewish musicians has been compiled. Its title: Judentum und Musik mil dem ABC jüdischer und nichtarischer Musik-beflissener. The third edition of this witching work, which last week reached U. S. shores, showed Nazi inquisitors to be more thorough than accurate. Among the prominent "Jewish" musicians listed: Chicago's retiring Yankee Composer John Alden Carpenter; rotund Danceband-leader Paul Whiteman; lusty, kewpie-faced Wagnerian Tenor...
...gallon for spirits tax-paid after July 1. This horrified the retail liquor business because it meant that any dealer with large stocks tax-paid before July 1 would have a price advantage. So Congress was asked to add a 25? floor tax to such stocks to avoid demoralizing the price structure. Last week the Senate Finance Committee favorably reported the bill...