Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey Long has always blamed Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana for the abortive movement to impeach him as Governor in 1929 (TIME, April 8, 1929, et seq.). He has hated the old city of Alexandria since some of its citizens rotten-egged him during a political speech last year. Last week the vindictive Kingfish caught up with one old enemy by laying a tax of 5? per barrel on oil refining within the State and disposed of another with a bill ousting all Alexandria's elected officials, giving him power to replace them...
Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's is poetic Mr. Quo Taichi. His contribution to the London Naval parleys (TIME, Oct. 29, et seq.) to which he was not invited, is a bland little ideograph meaning "If you give naval equality to Japan you give wings to the tiger...
...They have sufficient difficulty in getting what they regard as adequate appropriations for themselves. From their standpoint, if foreign governments can be induced to buy U. S. arms, that is a cheap way of supporting the Army's and Navy's own arsenals: du Pont, Remington, Winchester, Colt, et al. In last week's Senate testimony it was brought out that Chief of Staff MacArthur in former years made speeches in the Near East to promote the sale of U. S. arms. A munitions scandal might tar the War and Navy Departments with the same brush used to tar their...
...inefficient, stupid or untrustworthy lieutenants. Only two of Grant's generals whom Biographer McCormick praises are Sherman and Sheridan: Sherman was a good tactician but a poor fighter; Sheridan was Grant's equal in battle but never commanded a large army. For Burnside, Hancock, Meade, et al., McCormick has little but harsh words: "Strive as he might, Grant could not drive them forward...
...first-rate children's book. Mary Poppins will not qualify for this category, for Publishers Reynal & Hitchcock announce that it is not a juvenile; it is a story written ostensibly for children but with sentimental implications no child could grasp. Reminiscent of A. A. Milne, Peter Pan, Sruwelpeter, et al., Mary Pop- pins is far above the low average of modern fairy stories, will delight readers who have been badly brought up in the matter of children's classics. But it is not another Alice in Wonderland. Mary Poppins was, to say the least, a peculiar nursemaid...