Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peacetime winters Garmisch is almost as cosmopolitan as St. Moritz or Antibes, and though visitors this year, except for newspaper men, were almost 100% Aryan German, the effect remained. The expensive ladies of Germany's first families were blanketed in furs that looked as if they came from Paris, the men in tweeds that certainly came from England. Youngsters in the Alpenhof bar sang Night and Day and St. Louis Blues in English...
...able George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, had already laid his plans. Last week he completed a thoroughgoing overhaul of his press section, gave it a rank and standing it had never had before. As its new head he appointed one of his crack officers: natty, cosmopolitan Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson. Taken from command of the First Cavalry Division, West Pointer Richardson was sorry to leave his beloved horses, but he knew that the new job was more important. And with a Major General at the head desk, newsmen could soundly hope that from now on there will...
...before. In December they consumed 775,472 bales, more than in any previous month except March 1937, which had more working days. If prosperity in the U. S. textile business could set King Cotton on his feet, he should be there already. Unfortunately, he was regally habituated to a cosmopolitan orbit. Producing around 12,000,000 bales a year, U. S. cotton growers never sold more than 8,000,000 (1940, a record) in the U. S. As long as the export market remains closed, the U. S. must either grow less cotton, or consume more...
...Good morning" as they passed. The Chinese stopped, blurted that it was the first friendly word he had heard in his six weeks in the U. S. Mr. Edmonds invited him to Sunday supper, soon invited other foreign and U. S. students. Their group became Columbia's Intercollegiate Cosmopolitan Club, got Mr. Rockefeller to establish International House in 1924.* Mr. Edmonds was its first director...
When World War II swept over Europe, the world's art capital, by default, became Manhattan. The art centre of 57th Street, always cosmopolitan, began to bristle more than ever with foreign names...