Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actual loss of life was not great, Arab strategy being to take pot shots from housetops, destroy Jewish property whenever possible, then hustle off to bury their rifles in the ground behind their houses before British patrols could find them. British company commanders issued an order: Every shot from a hidden Arab sniper must be answered with a burst of 50 shots from an automatic rifle...
...theatre, Moore returned to help, and he and Yeats collaborated on a play. Moore admired Yeats but Yeats looked down on Moore, writes about him with a malice-sharpened pen. He accuses Moore of continual tarradiddles ("He was all self and yet had so little self that he would destroy his reputation, or that of some friend, to make his audience believe that the story running in his head at the moment had happened, had only just happened"). In appearance Moore was "insinuating, up-flowing, circulative, curvicular, pop-eyed ... a man carved out of a turnip, looking out of astonished...
Last week in the current issue of his monthly business review, Analyst Ayres undertook to destroy the common faith in common stocks as a hedge against inflation. With the aid of a chart showing the course of stock prices in terms of the cost of living, he reviewed the record in France, Germany and the U. S. during the War and post-War inflation. If stock prices had risen as fast as the cost of living, Mr. Ayres's bold, black zigzags would have fluctuated close to the basic chart line 100. The U. S. index, however, dropped...
...what was behind these labor disorders, opinions ranged from the Communist Daily Worker's charge that it was a monstrous conspiracy of Federal officials and shipowners to crush maritime labor, to the Hearstpaper belief that a great Communist plot was on foot to destroy the U. S. merchant marine. The Roosevelt Cabinet found itself seriously divided in dealing with breaches of marine discipline. When striking seamen tied up the Panama Pacific Line's S. S. California for four days in San Pedro last month (TIME, March 16), Secretary of Commerce Roper talked boldly about having the ringleaders prosecuted...
...French armament maker, his Russian mistress, Irene (Lynn Fontanne), a troupe of U. S. showgirls whom she calls "obvious little harlots," and their blatant but philosophical master of ceremonies, Harry Van (Alfred Lunt). When a nearby Italian airport provides the required military "incident" by sending planes off to destroy Paris, when England squares off against Germany, France against Italy, Russia against Japan, one by one the interned travelers break out their national colors. For some unindicated reason, the hoofer and the Russian girl remain critically aloof from the passions of nationalism. However, in an emotional outburst which turns her protector...