Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortage of pinheads, colored for use by living-room tacticians in deploying armies over maps, was reported by Rand McNally & Co., who also were sold out of all large-scale European maps...
Three quickest ways for a belligerent to get a neutral nation into a general war (as an enemy): bomb the nation's property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic, dressy, rich, charming U. S. Ambassador to Poland, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, who, without training, has proved himself an intelligent, far- sighted diplomat. He could do nothing about U. S. ships, but he quickly moved most U. S. citizens out of killing range, persuaded them to sell their property...
General Weygand was chosen for the new job not only because he can work 14 hours a day and knows the Far East as few European soldiers do, but because he can get along well with foreigners...
...gallery after European gallery did something about hiding its treasures and museum pieces (TIME, Sept. 4), Egypt's National Museum reburied old King Tutankhamen and London's famed Tate let it be known that up to August 31 more than 60% of its 2,600 pictures and 400 pieces of sculpture had been removed to three large country houses, locations unannounced. Already moved were 140 canvases of the late great pre-Impressionist Joseph Mallord William Turner. On the floor near the ladies' lavatory, still waiting their turn for evacuation, were the sculptures of very-much alive Jacob...
...city room on election night. On this assignment, radio was no cub. Its coverage of the Munich crisis and the Nazi occupation of Czecho-Slovakia were invaluable experience. For the last, exciting fortnight, radio's plans were consequently well laid. Correspondents reported daily, sometimes hourly from the main European capitals direct to U. S. listeners by radio telephone or short-wave pickups. Busy interpreters sat day and night before "monitor" receivers, eavesdropping on foreign radio stations. By round-the-clock diligence of this sort, and with a ceaseless supply of news bulletins from the press associations ticking...