Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current season. Forcefully conceived and superbly constructed, it tells the story of a Russian Jew in his struggle for power and self expression. Cursed with a driving ambition, an unlimited imagination, and a suppressed poetic fervor, Sol Ginsburg rises ruthlessly to the domination of a great business firm. This mad search for power drives Sol from his love for Sarah Glassman; his restless soul is never satisfied; his confused ideals and desires lead him on in unceasing search for anything which seems inaccessible to him. Having achieved his goal of wealth and industrial dominance, having compelled the vacuous, sensuous mistress...
...Senator. The job: the Mexican General Claims Commission. This agency was created to settle damages incurred by U. S. citizens during Mexico's 1910-20 period of revolutions. Graduated from the University of Virginia, Oscar Underwood Jr. was in Paris as a law clerk for a U. S. firm when war broke out in 1914. Back home in 1916, he served on the Mexican border with his Alabama militia regiment, then to France in 1917, did not take off his uniform until 1919. Now 44, he is identified with the anti-Bonus American Veterans Association, is a partner...
Last week the British Admiralty was urging Prime Minister MacDonald to demand a new agreement whereby Britain could have 70 cruisers, each somewhat smaller than those comprising the 50 to which she is limited by present treaties. Like Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, President Roosevelt was understood to stand firm last week on the basis of 35,000 tons as the proper size for each nation's capital ships, while Britain would like to cut this maximum...
Abruptly the Defense Ministry announced that no bid could be entertained from any firm which had had its papers snooped into and its secrets disclosed by U. S. Senate investigators. Haughtily a Chilean spokesman said: "In this so-called investigation Chilean officers were libeled...
...girls collapsed. Twice on the closing day of the Eucharistic Congress 1,000,000 people fervently massed in Palermo Park for a pontifical mass celebrated by Cardinal Pacelli, and a long triumphal procession. Through loudspeakers at the close of the mass came the firm voice of Pope Pius XI. In a benediction broadcast to the world he said: "Only where the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ rules are there offers of promises. Only so, in fact, will this poor world, which we see afflicted with fraternal and regal bloodshed, be able to find true and stable peace...