Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight persons jailed for complicity in the eternal ramifications of the Stavisky case (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.), none attracted greater sympathy than Arlette Stavisky, because of her beauty and because few serious students of the case believed that slippery Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky was the sort of man to give his dress model wife any inkling of his real business activities. For 14 months she stayed in the women's prison of La Petite Roquette, awaiting trial. From time to time she was hauled out for questioning. Every one of her pleas for release was promptly refused. Last...
Definitely convalescent last week was the Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
...Have you any last wish?" the executioners asked Brigadier General (retired) Anastase Papoulas and General Miltiades Kimissis, sentenced to be shot for having joined in the lost rebellion of Greece's Grand Old Man Eleutherios Venizelos (TIME, March 11 et seq.). So obvious was it to everybody that the two generals' last wish was death to the victorious enemies of Venizelos, that the two did not bother to say anything. Thereupon the firing squad blew them down dead...
...propaganda material broadcast to U. S. libraries, educational institutions and periodicals; "was particularly careful to arrange for lectures, letters and articles by pro-Ally Americans rather than by Englishmen." German-atrocity stories spread like tares. A group of U. S. war correspondents (Harry Hansen. Irvin Cobb, John T. McCutcheon et al.) who had been caught by the German advance in Belgium and went on with the German armies sent a combined cable to the Associated Press. ("In spirit fairness we unite in declaring German atrocities groundless . . . unable report single instance unprovoked reprisal . . . investigated rumors proved groundless ... to truth these statements...
...scooped by metropolitan dailies invading his own territory with Wirephotos. Moreover, said he, the Wirephoto machines were bought with money ($432,000) that belonged to the whole AP -non-users of Wirephoto as well as users. Angrily to the defense rushed Publisher Joseph Ridder of the St. Paul Dispatch et al. Cried he: "An insult to the board of directors! . . . You get what you pay for m this world, and now we are asked to vote that forever after the AP may never improve its mat-service if it should cost more...