Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week fighting planes for the belligerents still rumbled on test hops over the big Martin plant at Middle River, Md., over the Curtiss plant in Buffalo, over the West Coast factories of Lockheed, Douglas and North American at Los Angeles, Consolidated at San Diego...
...Harry C. Steinmetz of San Diego State College noted that, in environments where erroneous beliefs are trumpeted, something like an epidemic of paranoia (systematic delusions of persecution and grandeur) may spread, and that then large groups may become dependent on a paranoiac for their wellbeing. He mentioned, without naming, "a leading American research physician, recently returned from Germany, who tells me that a psychiatrist is in almost constant touch with the Fuhrer . . . that his Excellency suffers from paranoid manic-depression. ... It may be today that power does not so much corrupt as that the process of acquiring it maddens...
Died. Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, 89, Victorian poet who at 16 wrote the famed Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight;* of heart disease; in San Diego...
...minor characters are as interesting if not as important as these. They shuttle in & out of a narrative brightened by anecdote, distinguished by excellent writing, weighted by a shrewd understanding of frontier social forces. The six-year work of a 37-year-old professor of English at San Diego State College, San Francisco's Literary Frontier is almost a Western counterpart of Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, looks like a promising Pulitzer Prize contender...
...Vatican wraps its diplomatic moves in as thick a fog as the Kremlin. But two mysterious talks of the Pope with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, a talk with German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl Ludwig Diego von Bergen, two "very important" talks with Dictator Mussolini's friend Father Tacchi-Venturi, two meetings of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in the office of the Papal Secretary of State, hinted how seriously the Holy Father had buckled down to the task of preventing an Anglo-Soviet Pact...