Word: brande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unsuitable for wear in Ethiopia is the Fascist black shirt which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs...
Week prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality." The brand of Arkansas hospitality accorded Preacher Williams and Miss Blagden last week swung the spotlight of national attention on the 1936 Arkansas sharecroppers' strike which had been fumbling along unnoticed for four weeks...
...Imperial and Oceanic" were the significant words in this key pronouncement by Sir Samuel Hoare, for they implied a brand new concept of Empire strategy. Since the Suez Canal was opened (with Britain as a major shareholder since 1875 by Disraeli's finesse), the King's subjects have been taught that the "Lifeline of Empire" runs through Suez. This shortest route to India must at all costs be dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself...
What a shortstop is to a pitcher, what a tail is to a kite, what a pin is to a pinwheel -Bill Hawkins is to Roy Howard. In 1906 when Roy Howard, a brash boy wonder two years off the Cincinnati Post, was made New York manager of the brand new Scripps' Publishers' Press Association at $50 a week (which he agreed to plough back for stock), his first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years...
British authorities at Nassau last week heard that a wrecked trawler had just been found on lonely Samana Cay, 300 miles southeast. At once they leaped to the conclusion that the wreck was the mysterious Girl Pat, brand new trawler which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day and, after lurid adventures, was last reported fortnight ago off Guiana (TIME, June 8 & 22). Before they could investigate, the Girl Pat turned up safely at Georgetown, British Guiana...