Word: fored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outlook-magazine as new managing editor last week went Carl Chandlee Dickey, long schooled on the New York Times, World's Work and on McClure's until Hearst scrapped it two years ago. He replaces Henry F. Pringle, leaving to finish his biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Be- fore vacating his office, Editor Pringle saw published in Outlook the first instalment of his most recent notable acquisition, a well-documented, impartial survey of Prohibition by Author Charles Merz (The Great American Bandwagon, And Then Came Ford), able understudy of the New York World's Editor Walter Lippmann...
...plane, which carries a crew of three (pilot, photographer, radioman) is capable of 150 m. p. h. with normal load of 2,443 Ib.?faster than any U. S. military planes except small pursuit craft. Machine guns are mounted fore & aft. It is primarily designed for long-range reconnaissance and photographic work. But at the Fokker plant in Teterboro, N. J. a plane nearly identical was being completed with the utmost secrecy. Reporter Bruce Gould of the New York Evening Post, who inadvertently happened upon it while on another mission, reported it to be "[a] pursuit-bomber . . . long nosed...
...fight to the fore in a great Trade Union Congress stamps a man as a comer. Moreover the widespread Transport Union of which Mr. Bevin is Secretary is one of the best vote getters in all Britain. Cor respondents saw in his leadership of 'Labor's reaction against "rationalization" last week a popular lever by which hefty Ernest Bevin may presently jack himself up to cabinet rank...
...Williamstown. Meanwhile U. S.-U. S. S. R. trade relations came to the fore in another quarter of the week's news when the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass., opened its discussions. In halting English, Peter A. Bogdanov, board chairman of Amtorg, complained that his agency suffered from "a certain lack of confidence created by the many baseless rumors regarding economic conditions in the Soviet Union and the recent unwarranted attacks on the Amtorg." He repeated his warning that if U. S. financing conditions for Russian trade continued "unsatisfactory," Soviet purchasers would shift their business from...
...taciturn, retiring inhabitant of the little Northampton law office and the shady new Northampton estate. The Beeches. In returning to his public. Citizen Coolidge brought with him most of the dignity and restraint he had exercised with such success in the White House. Again to the fore were the elevated moral inflection and the conservative economic tone which characterized practically all of his presidential speeches...