Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week a more penetrating voice was heard in opposition to the pact. No matter what Vandenberg and Connally said, Ohio's Robert Taft felt that it commits the U.S. to arms assistance as well. And if it does, "I believe it will promote war in the world rather than peace . . . My conclusion has been reached with the greatest discomfort. When so many disagree with that conclusion, I must admit that I may be completely wrong...
Delegations from Belgium drop in to see him quite often. Word reached Brussels last week that the King was telling callers he now felt dubious about a plebiscite on his return. It might divide his people, politically and geographically, by deepening the division between Flemings (who tend to support the King) and Walloons (who distrust his alleged pro-Flemish sympathies). Leopold, said one report, favored a solution that would allow him to return to Brussels with honor vindicated and constitution upheld, then abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin...
Reading Histories. While this bargaining over his royal personality was going on, Leopold was catching up on some reading. One day last week, his tall blond figure clad in grey jacket, flannel trousers and narrow-brimmed green felt hat, he motored in his Bugatti sport car to a big Geneva bookstore. He came away with Nehru's Glimpses of World History, Churchill's Their Finest Hour and Laski's American Democracy...
...company's initial fund of $10 million should be ready for loans to qualified producers of "A"' films. The conditions: a rotating committee of exhibitors will pass on stories, casts and budgets to make sure that they beat in tune with "the pulse of the public" as felt at the box office. Even if some studios do not need financing, they may get the company's advice free...
Nunn Ballew, a poor farmer from the hills of Kentucky, worked in the coal mines until he had saved enough money to buy 200 run-down acres of what had once been the fine land of his ancestors. But before he could begin building the place up, he felt bound to scrap his ambition. King Devil, a big red fox which haunted the countryside, had run his favorite hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock...