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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blackshirts in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Fascist Movement, did not list specific demands on France, as expected, but merely repeated many a Mussolini bromide: the axis is strong, the democracies are wrong, the Mediterranean is Italy's sphere of influence, Italy's biggest wish is peace and biggest need is more ships, cannon and airplanes. Specifically on the subject of Mediterranean conflicts with the French, he said openly that the next move was France...
...Biggest fear of the Major's since the start, especially in hard times, has been that professionals might begin palming themselves off as simon-pures. But 30 years in and around the theatre have taught the Major to spot a pro as surely as a cop can spot a dip. Usually the Major's manner is kindly, helpful, encouraging, even fatherly. But when professionals appear all the love goes out of his voice. He becomes short, sharp, tries to give them the air and be done with them as soon as possible...
...University's president, recently announced that he would go into well-earned retirement next June. Last week the final year of this phenomenal money-raiser was made memorable when, to his surprise, a man whom he scarcely knew dropped into the university's lap one of its biggest single gifts,* $6,735,000. The gift is to establish a Midwest institute of technology comparable to the East's M. I. T., the West's Caltech...
...listing; 2) by & large all the issues move up and down together. Another inducement is the fact that the Government market, with no SEC to regulate it, can be played on margins as low as 5% instead of the 40% now required for stocks. Biggest inducement is that the Government, with its powers over the banking structure and its large trading operations in its own securities, can and does rig the market to protect its issues, which private financiers are forbidden...
...biggest scene in The Thibaults, this one of Antoine's medical and amorous initiation, is also an excellent illustration of Roger Martin du Card's art. It shows his handling of mature, accomplished characters, his mastery of suspense, his trick of giving his characters homely, human reflections at exalted moments in their lives. Unique among French novels, The Thibaults tells a frank, sometimes scandalous story with deceptive innocence, makes the most hackneyed theme of modern fiction-the breakup of a family-fresh, unexpected, unusual...