Word: frees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After free-lancing in New Zealand and Australia, David Low went to England in 1919, where he drew for the London Star ' until 1927, when Lord Beaverbrook hired him for his Evening Standard. There he has ever since made fun of his employer's arch-conservative opinions. This month, A Cartoon History of Our Times, the seventeenth and best collection of David Low's work, with an explanatory text by Quincy Howe (author of England Expects Every American To Do His Duty), is to be published in the U. S.* Covering the hectic years...
...hrer Adolf Hitler is no man to take unnecessary risks. If the German Navy were to steam into Danzig Harbor and forcefully take over the Free City, Britain's Peace Front might well become a War Front. A neater, less dangerous solution would be for the Danzig Senate simply to declare the City annexed to Germany. This would place Poland in the bad strategic position of having to take the initiative and becoming the technical aggressor. If Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should get fainthearted about the Polish Guarantee, as the Nazis confidently expect, he would have a hole, albeit...
...Rear Admiral Fleischer and a company of marines with a brass band, arrived in Danzig last Sunday. There were speeches and a parade, all surprisingly nonbelligerent. The Poles ignored the move, and sly Danzig Nazis reasoned that if they could get away with one "foreign" naval detachment in the Free City, they might get away with more...
...American Civil Liberties Union, since March, has accumulated a resounding voice of 86 radio stations in 35 States for its 15-minute, free weekly scripts, Civil Liberties in the News, presented as "a commentary on the present-day struggle to preserve the Bill of Rights for all people throughout our country...
...Also free to any broadcaster who will use them are the National Association of Manufacturers' two radio programs, items in its $750,000-a-year campaign to get the Government off U. S. business' neck. One of these programs, a dramatic serial called The American Family Robinson, is over four years old, goes out twice a week or oftener over 250 stations by electrical Tanscription, talks Alger-book homilies, free enterprise and the American...