Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily discovered it had designated Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day by mistake. Alf Landon sounded off in Colorado as follows: ". . . Another illustration of the confusion which his impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken in working...
Three weeks ago, as the British-French military mission was on its way to Moscow to try to conclude a three-way alliance with the U. S. S. R., another British mission was reported heading for Danzig. No one knew anything about it, except that its leader was a certain Professor Riley, and that it was vaguely economic. In Tallinn, Estonia, a reporter of the Swedish Aftonbladet credited the mysterious Professor Riley with a startling declaration: "In Britain we are by no means convinced of the vital necessity of Danzig for Poland. . . . The Commission has undertaken its trip under Government...
Since then all except the Moors have fought each other like cats in a bag. It was evident that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's attempt to keep the peace between these yowling groups was certain to fail. His ambitious brother-in-law Ramón Serrano Suñer, Minister of the Interior, was using his increasing power to build a radical Fascist Spain, an annex to Axis foreign policy. The businessmen, Royalists and officers who wanted neutrality and a return to the good old days got together in another alley and sharpened their claws...
Just who would profit by such a system, except for recording companies and some finely trained audience ears, is still problematical, but sure losers would be: 1) networks which would have little reason for existing; and 2) American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which collects some $6,000,000 annually from the networks for the use of 202,000 miles of wire hookups...
...rubber shortage that last week, in a Munich medical journal, patriotic Surgeon Karl Faber advised his colleagues to "wash their hands several minutes longer in order to economize on [dispense with] valuable rubber gloves." Other warlike economies suggested by Dr. Faber: 1) substitution of cloth gloves for rubber except in major operations; 2) laundering of bloody bandages and compresses which are ordinarily thrown away; 3) use of small-sized towels in operating on children...