Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...properties owned by U. S. and British citizens (TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...
...year out, the most generous subsidies to the French press and French journalists are tossed out where they will do the most good, by the French Government and its constituent parties. When moderates ran France, the leftwing press suffered lean days. Since 1936, roles have been reversed. The Popular Front press has licked the subsidy platter clean. The Left & Right papers have raised their price per copy three times in a year, but after nearly two years on a bread & water diet most of the conservative dailies are in the last stages of anemia...
Appeals for funds plaster their front pages. Jacques Doriot's La Liberté urgently needs 500,000 francs. Fascist Col. François de La Roque's Petit Journal, panhandling for millions, has founded a "Club of Friends of the Petit Journal" who give up cigarets or lipstick to contribute 10 francs a month. The Royalist Action Francaise, perennially broke, is still begging another 1,000,000 francs-starting a new campaign on the heels of an old one. Young L'Epoque must have 6,000,000 francs or it will close...
...Russians, made Napoleon retreat from Russia in 1812. In 1914 typhus killed 150,000 Serbs and 30,000 of their Austrian prisoners. The plague spread to Russia, where it infected 25,000,000, killed 3,000,000, and made Hindenburg fear to move German troops from his Polish front to his French front. Today few U. S. residents know anything of the disease or of the dirty pink eruptions, high fever, delirium and terrific death toll peculiar to typhus fever.*Half-a-dozen years ago, however, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service, coming...
...each town where You Never Know has so far played Actress Velez, conducting a "happiness campaign," has presented $50 to charity. Presentation is uniformly in front of a camera. In Washington last fortnight, actress and cameraman were ready, but the matron of Friendship House, the charity organization selected, balked. Said she: "Publicity? We couldn't have that!" Said Donor Velez before stalking off irately: "Me geeve my good money in a clothes closet? Nuts...