Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Threatened with a wholesale bolt to C. I. O., the council decided this week to give jurisdiction of former A. F. A. members back to the actors, then got down to saving what face it could for Councilman Browne and Secretary Whitehead...
...mountaintop. League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig, Dr. Carl Burckhardt conferred with Herr Hitler, launching a new crop of rumors: 1) that a settlement of the Danzig problem was in the air; 2) that Danzig might be part of a general European settlement. Count Ciano went back to Rome. The Premier of Yugoslavia returned to Belgrade. The Regent of Hungary made an unexpected "private" visit to Berlin. Poland's line remained-in Marshal Smigly-Rydz's artful words-peace could not mean "take" for nations, "give" for others. And all over Europe...
Badoglio. Paris gossip also had it that Chief of General Staff Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's most gifted strategist (who was surprisingly absent from the maneuvers), had won another victory. The tough-minded Marshal, who salvaged the Ethiopian campaign after it had bogged down, and who talks back to Il Duce, was reported to think no more of Blitzkrieg than of many another red-hot Fascist notion...
...week's end Japanese Ambassador-at-Large Sotomatsu Kato warned Sir Robert that unless Great Britain resumed negotiations within 24 hours, the Army delegations would break up the parley, go back to Tientsin, set off another boiler under Neville Chamberlain. After 24 hours the parley was still recessed. Without losing their tempers, the soldiers buckled on their swords and flew back to China. "If Britain mends her ways," said one, "we might come back...
...stage adaptation that ran 18 months on Broadway with Fred Stone.* Dorothy (Judy Garland) gets blown away in a twister from her home in Kansas, finds herself in the Technicolor land of Oz. Homesick, she goes in search of the Wizard of Oz to ask him how to get back to Kansas. Along the way she meets a Straw Man (Ray Bolger), a Tin Woodman (Jack Haley), a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). They too want to see the Wizard. The Straw Man seeks a brain, the Woodman a heart, the Cowardly Lion, courage...