Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primitive demands and threats made to Neville Chamberlain behind the soundproof walls of the Führer's study at Berchtesgaden. Premier Benito Mussolini was the unashamed and blatant chief who was first to shout openly in a speech at Trieste that there was no alternative to War except the immediate dismemberment of Czechoslovakia...
...Albert Pelzman of Georgetown University School of Medicine said that he is starting an agency for proxy fathers in Washington. Blonds, brunets, redheads, Jews, Catholics and Protestants will be on the list, he said, and a prospective mother can have her child influenced in every physical respect except sex. Heredity and background of all candidates are thoroughly investigated. Since the human male attains his highest fertility during his twenties, Dr. Pelzman's present list of 15 is drawn mostly from medical students and interns who are glad to get the $25 fee per insemination. Operation of the bureau will...
...those six, the two biggest hits carried the names of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Indeed, during the past three years they have continuously-except for one lone week-had a smash hit on Broadway. Last week, their / Married An Angel, entering its fifth month, grossed over $28,681-a new high-and averaged 80 standees a performance. This week, road-show rehearsals start on I'd Rather Be Right after its summer holiday. A week or two hence rehearsals will start on a third Rodgers & Hart show, The Boys from Syracuse, which they are doing with Playwright-Producer...
...hand. They listened to anti-New Deal speeches by Vice President Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L., Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Representative Samuel B. Pettengill of Indiana. By week's end they had drawn up a series of resolutions which opposed virtually everything except: 1) "the American system of free enterprise"; 2) "active and immediate cooperation of labor, business, agriculture, and Government"; 3) "fundamental principles of anti-trust laws"; 4) "immediate nonpolitical solution of the present deplorable railroad situation...
Various speakers pointed out that small businessmen numerically represent 90% of U. S. business, that they control over 18,000,000 votes, that the association is represented in 60% of the country's Congressional districts. No one would say how big the association is, except to place it kittenishly between 1,000 and 100,000. Probable size: 5,000 to 10,000. "If the membership is secret," said Mr. Emery, "no one knows how big a club you're swinging." He was not at all discouraged, he added, at the convention's small attendance. "After...