Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Signor Mussolini, impatient and contemptuous of the "exploratory voyages" of Sir John and Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden (TIME, April 1 et seq.), sought to get everyone down to brass tacks. Observed Italian newsorgans which are under his thumb: "What have these explorations done except to leave Italy under the necessity of maintaining 600,000 men in arms? . . . When is procrastination to give place to action...
...what His Majesty referred to as 400 machine guns, 20,000 rifles and 6,000,000 rounds of ammunition made in Czechoslovakia and Belgium. II Duce's air-tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa the wart, smart Emperor of Abyssinia received guests while fondling three cocker spaniels given him in happier times by Italy's Little King...
...Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday, at every change in her condition, the Press retold the strange case of Patricia Maguire (TIME, Dec. 17, et ante). Not until last week, however, did her case achieve the dignity of a full-length professional report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Then & there Dr. Traut wrote of his best-known patient...
Ontario's new Liberal Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn is very busy giving his Province a new deal (TIME, July 2, et seq.). And like any good New Dealer the cocky, noisy Premier insisted on making an issue of Power. That was not so easy for Mr. Hepburn as it was for President Roosevelt: almost all of Ontario's power business is already in the hands of Hydro and Hydro is an official appendage of the Provincial Government. Furthermore, no less a private U. S. powerman than . Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York...
...pleasant it would be to view Messrs. Hitler, Long Coughlin et al, stewing in their own juice, swallowing their own words (though the looks on their faces as they did so would be horrible). The demise of the Watch and Ward Society, and the refusal of all intelligent Bostonians to the censorship of acknowledged literature and art--what a delightful fantasy! One's Imagination conjures up any number of idyllic pictures, ranging from the elimination of the profit motive and the brother hood of man, to devices that will render Boston winters things of the past...