Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pushing back his spectacles in amazement, old Chairman Doughton asked: "Would you have the same rate on bread and wheat as cigarets and whiskey?" Mr. Cromwell: "Yes, sir." Thoroughly nettled, long-faced Congressman Fred Vinson quickly calculated that on the base suggested by Mr. Cromwell the sales tax would have to be 18%. This, Mr. Cromwell admitted, was "a little high." Thus, last week, like scores of other U. S. citizens, Husband Cromwell exercised his right to be heard on a new tax bill in the making...
...Germany, Italy and Japan, may come to be considered as primarily a Democratic alliance opposed to Fascism. The Swiss Government has already served notice that the League cannot remain at Geneva if it loses its universal character. Reason: The neutral Swiss dare not let their country be used as base by any group for operating against another-not even by Democracy (favored by the Swiss) to oppose Fascism or Naziism (which they detest...
...another of their group, Lord Halifax, to talk Rapprochement directly with Adolf Hitler (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). How far this attitude of the Times had gone was pointed up last week when London's liberal New Statesman and Nation intimated that it had caught the Times off base...
This was putting the case optimistically. It was evident that the Popular Front had been so cracked, patched up and cracked again, that this coalition, which has been the base on which French Cabinets have rested since the last election (TIME, June 15, 1936), is unlikely to stand up much longer. Logical next move would be dissolution of the Chamber with an immediate election. First party to come out with what could easily become an electioneering broadside were the Communists: "Formation of the Cabinet which M. Blum had envisioned was rendered impossible by the demands of Paul Reynaud who wanted...
...product of this extraordinary coaching regime. He is considered so superior to all other basketball players this year that he is one of the few basketball subjects over which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both), he has effected some of the most exciting scoring sprees ever witnessed by modern critics...