Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision in London of 27 nations at the International Committee for Non-intervention to keep out of Spain further volunteers and ammunition (TIME, March 1). Last week the committee agreed how best to do this. The coast of Spain was divided into sectors, and part of the international fleet was assigned to each. To Russia was assigned patrol of the northwest sector of the Bay of Biscay, though it was clear that her few creaky vessels surviving from Tsarist days could never stand up to those storm-lashed seas. Russia refused the assignment, "saved face" by demanding to patrol part...
...Portuguese delegate who declared that his country, too, refused to contribute to the International fleet, thus leaving Britain, France, Germany and Italy to do the job. These four powers resolved to take over the whole blockade from midnight of March 6. Each ship will fly in addition to its national flag a "neutral blue pennant with a yellow cross." Italy will patrol the eastern coast of Spain from the French frontier down past Barcelona and Valencia to Alicante. From that point Germany will patrol the southeastern coastline to Malaga. British ships will patrol from Malaga through the Strait of Gibraltar...
...most diligent figure in Britain's newspaper world. In his silver-&-black modernistic office he works 16 hours on weekdays, eight on Sundays. Every night at 10 he telephones his press superintendent to get last-minute details of headlines, pictures, stories. Austerely aloof, this lone wolf of Fleet Street, who envies Press Barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere only their titles, seldom talks to them direct, receiving their messages through a lieutenant...
Elias is a manufacturing printer as well as a publisher, has one entire company devoted to the printing of outdoor advertising posters. Last week, while he lay ill of a gastric complaint in a nursing home, Fleet Street learned that Elias had outbid Beaverbrook and Rothermere, had bought for a reputed ?600,000 cash controlling interest in British Illustrated Group. He thus took over control of the cut-glass society weeklies Tatler, Bystander, Sphere, as well as the Illustrated London News, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News and the monthly Britannia...
...Fleet Street, which has long grown weary of Elias' successes, was last week much more absorbed in a campaign to throttle "sensationalism," launched by the National Union of Journalists containing some 6,100 newshawks, two-thirds of the total number in Britain. The Union sent strong protests to the Newspaper Proprietors' Association (representing national dailies and Sunday papers) and the Newspaper Society (representing 1,000 provincial papers...