Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval aide to Franklin Roosevelt. His career began in 1902 when he graduated from Annapolis as the youngest member of his class. He went back to teach at the Academy in 1907, commanded the U. S. S. Parker during the World War, later headed the U.. S. submarine base at New London, Conn...
...fact that Premier Benito Mussolini's second son Bruno had arrived with 23 brand new Savoia-Marchetti S-79 B's, considered among Italy's fastest and best bombers, on the Island of Majorca (TIME, Oct. 11), caused this Rightist base to be furiously strafed last week by three flights of Leftist bombers from Valencia...
This week three fresh Chinese divisions from Nanking, defending the great supply base and military junction of Shihkiach-wang under General Cheng Chien, Chief of the Chinese General Staff, claimed to be holding out against "Japanese onslaughts so terrific that the Huto River is literally running with blood." Tokyo officially claimed to have taken Shihkiach-wang. Japanese war correspondents lyrically compared the action to "General von Mackensen's crossing of the Dunajec in the World War," prematurely boasted "this seals the fate of North China...
...When we say that the Europe of tomorrow will be Fascist we base this on facts, and particularly on new states, not only European, which have linked themselves with those which initiated the movement of recovery. There is no doubt, for example, that Japan is liberating herself from the parliamentary miasma which she acquired a few decades ago, and which today arrests her vital elan. We fully understand and justify this elan. The squeals of spinsters and the sermons of archbishops make us laugh...
...Photo-Facts Publisher Fawcett offers little advice, much fact illustrated in encyclopedia fashion. "Jumping at conclusions," says Mr. Fawcett's "pocketbook of knowledge," "is all right if you have a solid base from which to jump. . . . Photo-Facts supplies a good firm groundwork of useful information from which to 'jump' accurately." Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie...