Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the continued rise of George Browne, the continued expansion of I. A. T. S. E., made big news. His union of stagehands having grown until it embraced or claimed nearly everybody except the talent working for legitimate theatres, broadcasters, movie houses and cinemakers, he was out with a kingly plan to enroll the talent as well. He proposed to do nothing less than make I. A. T. S. E. and its subsidiaries one big union, himself a labor tsar for the whole entertainment industry...
...Except in summer, when the Generalissimo is often away weeks at a time on tours of inspection of French military establishments, Gamelin works at his office all day receiving visitors, holding staff consultations, reading reports, laying out plans, until about...
...General usually wears, except on ceremonial occasions, a dark civilian suit. He does not mind the numerous luncheons and dinners he has to attend, likes to go out evenings, to hear opera and ancient music. If he stays home he reads. His library is stocked principally with philosophy, folklore, political and military history and treatises on his other old favorite: map making. He has few friends, but one of his best, oddly enough, is that other able professional, Marshal Pietro Badoglio of Italy. On his 55th birthday General Gamelin married. He and his wife, who is as neutral-toned...
Italy, while her politicians coyly debated which side to join, did not suffer greatly in 1914 and 1915 except from the rising cost of food. In Rumania and Bulgaria peasants suffered less than townspeople in the first years of the War as both groups of belligerents tried to buy foodstuffs, but both governments had finally to fix prices...
...Eight Latin American countries declared war in 1917 and 1918: Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. But practically speaking none of them took part except economically...