Word: ending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicted: 1) "It is impossible for Germany to defeat Poland plus France plus Britain," 2) there would be no immediate bombing of French or British cities, at least until Hitler had had a chance to try for peace after taking what he wants of Poland. At week's end Major Eliot, fearing inevitable censorship of his tactical notions, was seeking Clipper passage to carry...
...slight, baldish, bright-looking, tweedy Dale Nichols, 35. School begins for him this week at the University of Illinois, whose trustees, impressed because he won a $300 William Randolph Hearst prize at a Chicago Art Institute exhibit in 1935, because Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum bought and hung his End of the Hunt, because he is a two-fisted advocate of "beauty" v. "ugliness" in art, last summer appointed him for one year, first art apostle to the Illini under a five-year Carnegie Foundation grant...
Thus at week's end the U. S. press showed that it was as much confused by war, as mistrustful of both sides and their issues, as the readers it served...
Instead of relaxing British censorship, at week's end the Government had clamped it down tighter than ever. News-pictures could not be sent by mail or wireless, cable transmission of wirephotos was restricted. No photographs of any kind could be imported into Britain. Most of the war pictures printed in U. S. papers were being taken by German Army cameramen, released by the Ministry for Propaganda in Berlin...
Comedy of Ignorance. Bewildered was Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. He knew that no pipsqueak hoarding could clean out the much greater involuntary hoards of farm commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...