Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of Oran last week terminated an era in Anglo-French relations: that of the Entente Cordiale. The Entente, born in 1904 and practically the only political monument to fun-loving, Francophile Edward VII, was only a general understanding primarily concerning African colonial matters. By 1907 it had blossomed into the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia, and bore its outstanding fruit in lining up the Allies against the central continental power of Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I. In the 20 years after 1919 the Entente was frequently strained: when Britain refused to consider Germany...
Litvinoff Era. Having embarked upon the collective security method of pursuing her objective of peace, Russia gave it all she had. Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff became one of the most active, consistent delegates to the League, repeatedly astounded his colleagues with the proposal that everybody disarm. But almost from the moment that she entered the League, Russia saw the principle of collective security sold out time after time...
...Molotov Era. In Russia Litvinoff had stood for the idea of collective security; abroad he had represented Russia's desire for collective security. It was not Litvinoff but collective security that fell. To symbolize Russia's new reliance on herself, Joseph Stalin picked a man who represented the state bureaucracy he had created. An old-guard Bolshevik, Molotov was a quiet political boss who had risen through hard, unspectacular work to be President of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier) and a member of the powerful Politbureau. In Russia he was known as the father...
...sport fans witnessed a milestone in prizefight annals: the first million-dollar gate. Last week, on the 19th anniversary of that historic Dempsey-Carpentier battle, Jersey City was the scene of another heavyweight prize fight that will probably go down in history as the wretchedest of the post-Dempsey era...
...same enthusiasm. The New York Stock Exchange, with utility stocks opening up three points, traded 660,000 shares in its first hour (previous day's total: 441,000). The New York Journal of Commerce exulted, "To the business community, the nomination of Mr. Willkie spells a new era," and predicted a more confident policy among purchasing agents. More significant was the way individual businessmen took fire. Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Edgar Monsanto Queeny asked his board of directors for a leave of absence until November to work for Willkie's election, was refused, compromised by going...