Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy last week was curious. When the German-Soviet Pact was announced to the people, some editors elaborately explained that after all Fascism was a proletarian doctrine, so why shouldn't it march with Russia? The newspaper of Party Secretary General Achille ("the Panther Man") Starace called the deal "pure Machiavellianism" (much admired by Fascists) and hinted that Italy had thought...
Last week, viewing their respective prospects at the hands of Hitler in the light of his super deal with the Soviets, Hungary and Rumania were trying desperately to be friends. Lately it has seemed clear enough that if Hungary did get Transylvania back from Rumania, Germany might swallow both on its inevitable way to get at oil-drilling, grain-bearing Rumania. Last week, with Hitler going hammer & tongs after Poland, Hungary's historic ally, Hungary seemed a likely next under the hammer. With this in prospect, worrying over long-lost Transylvania seemed pointless indeed...
...alliance in the issue of September 3, 1938; and in the October 20, 1938 issue of Ken one Edward Hunter had practically the same idea. Winchell guessed it, of course. He, too, reads newspapers. And Bad Boy Columnists Pearson & Allen knew some of the details a month before the deal. Among the amateurs, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wrote in a letter dated June 7: "I still believe that eventually Russia and Germany will get together...
...smartest thing he could do: persuaded the Scripps boys to fold their News-Telegram and took over (for a reported $600,000) its features and circulation. After eliminating duplication, the Journal should get between 20,000 and 25,000 circulation from the News-Telegram, come out of the deal on a par with the Oregonian...
...jobs. Lithuanian-born David Colony-who had soldiered at 16 in Allenby's hell-for-leather army in Palestine, who had muttered against church pomposity and mustiness, who had been unhappy as curate of Philadelphia's swank Church of the Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke's unemployed parishioners. He told them to go into business for themselves. That first group raised $11,000 and within a few months more Rector Colony, their president, had wangled a $15,000 RFC loan. A small vacant mill was bought, 13 ancient knitting machines...