Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case other readers should find no time to write, I submit an opinion that your TIME differed with parliamentarians and lexicographers when it chose to denote Mrs. Mary Norton as chairlady [TIME, Aug. 7]. Offhand it is my impression that chairman is a title applicable to members of both sexes...
German strategy is necessarily to attack on one front and stand on the defensive on the other. In 1914 the Germans chose to fight first in the west, failed there, then concentrated on winning a victory in the east before turning to the west again. Now faced with the Maginot Line and the modern French army, Germany may reverse her former plan, strike first in the east, giving her airfleet the job of hanging her western enemies...
...noisiest demonstration of all followed the reading of a message from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By his own account, he chose his words with extreme care so that their meaning should be pikestaff plain...
Last week Wartime field artillery Captain Witter announced his successor, selected by the board of governors and sure to be elected at the I.E.A. convention in Del Monte, Calif, this October. This time I.B.A. reached into the Middle West, chose another Wartime battery commander: tall, spectacled, 48-year-old Emmett Francis Connely, president of First of Michigan Corp. First Detroiter ever to head I.E.A., socialite "Spike" Connely is also anti-New Deal, believes in letting others shout their antagonism while he does the best he can in sad days for banking...
...some 200,000 German-speaking people who, by the Treaty of St. Germain signed in 1919, were transferred from Austrian to Italian sovereignty. Last week the Fascists and the Nazis, having long soft-pedaled this delicate situation, decided to solve it for once and for all. The method they chose was the hard way-a transfer of the population, not the territory, back to Greater Germany...