Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diktat of Versailles, much less to the freely negotiated and not dictated Locarno Pact. "Once again we are asking ourselves," summed up Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., " 'Is any treaty made with Germany more than a scrap of paper?'. . . For Britain the only possible course is to follow the same policy as she has done in the case of Italy" - i. e., hurl League sanctions against Germany...
...four musicomedies remained on Broadway, the mid-season low since the beginning of the War. Simultaneously. Variety's radio log showed that the tune most played on the air was I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket, one of Irving Berlin's contributions to Follow the Fleet. For his work on this cinema...
...citizen, producer, consumer. In each of these capacities he has a vote and a voice; in one of them he has a job. Except for the steadily dwindling minority (2.5% in 1934) of the disfranchised, every Russian acts in this triple role. Over & above this, if he wants to follow "the vocation of public leadership," and can stand the gaff, he may be a member of the Communist Party. Members are hardly admitted, easily expelled, must "walk a straight & narrow way. With a naughty old wink at the Kremlin and another at the Vatican, the Webbs liken the personnel...
...whom his personality and achievements are a vivid memory. He used characteristically to disclaim any right to be long remembered, saying that a college president's name was 'writ in water'. His biographer, however felt differently and said 'he opened paths for our children's feet to follow; something of him will be part of us forever...
...underworld skullduggery; his determination and that of his subordinates has brought results. This drive has concentrated on illicit gambling dens, alky-cookers' work-shops, and blemishes on the face of society. Swift and inexorable action on the part of the law has taught Chicago criminals the wisdom of following Mr. Kipling's advice, and changing their spots. Faced with the loss of revenue from the bootlegging industry and vigorous destruction of other sources of income, the criminal, it seems, can be suppressed if not completely wiped out. Chicago hitherto has been the black sheep of crime in the eyes...