Word: denning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to get much sympathy from London's big financiers, who are far more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew the $85,000,000 loan, the Labor Government would have to mend...
...meddy in a ITTY BITTY POO). The chorus can be sung only one way: Boop boop dittem dattem whattem Chu! The song, likely to cause reverse peristalsis in fastidious stomachs, is all about some "itty fitties" who "fam and dey fam" until they "taw a TARK!" (shark). Den dey fam back to deir poo. The publishers, wary of overplugging Three Little Fishies, withheld it from all but a few big orchestral names-Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, each of whom recorded it. The song was plugged on the radio by Mildred Bailey, Fannie Brice, Judy Starr. Along...
...story of German intrigue and U. S. counter-intrigue. Führer Hitler had invited General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian Chief of Staff, to visit Berlin. The Führer was prepared to shower the General with compliments, among them the honor of marching down Unter den Linden at the head of a specially picked regiment of Nazi troops...
...Phillip deN. Ruprecht, Ernest J. Sargeant, William J. Shallow, John H. Sisson, Stanley E. Slivkin, B. Sheffield West, Samuel W. White, Charles F. Whiting, Calvin Williams, and Henry C. Wynn...
...Germany will vociferously acclaim the soth birthday of its creator and Führer this week. On the same day-April 20-Herr Himmler will quietly, without public fanfare, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his appointment as Inspector of the Gestapo. Troops will march down Berlin's Unter den Linden and through the crowded Tiergarten as the 50-year-old Führer receives the frenzied homage of an adoring nation. Clustered around Herr Hitler on a reviewing stand are to be the familiar, conspicuous figures of the Nazi hierarchy-fat, strapping Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring...