Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the increasingly social beaver appeared in court, defendant in a complaint brought by Connecticut's Highway Department that a dam was creating a flood danger. Connecticut's Attorney General Pallotti ruled that the dam might legally be destroyed, summarily summed up: "In the case of rational animals we know that the individuals' rights are inferior to those of the State. Following this rule, we must conclude that these animals, being irrational, must also give way to the rights of the State. However, as in the case of human beings, where just compensation is provided...
...rolling, the ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun itself." Jimmy Walker, defeating Fiorello LaGuardia for Mayor of New York, asked that movie houses show only cheerful pictures in an attempt to brighten the general gloom. A world that saw full-page advertisements offering Manhattan apartments for $45,000 a year, and sable coats for $30,000 to $50,000-a world so jittery that a decline in U. S. Steel to $195 a share meant a panic-would not have believed that the national...
...National Automobile Show opened in Manhattan in a blaze of color (see p. 90), with new models, lower prices, promises for a big year, with General Motors' Alfred Sloaa the U. S. No. 1 automaker...
...Britain is to eradicate "Hitlerism" surprised those who had heard him on other occasions criticize the British Government for countenancing aggression in Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia. While some M.P.s, many of them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came near to suggesting that peace talk at such a time was the next thing to treason, the white-haired veteran protested bitterly that...
About 15,000 Poles were recruited in France to fight on the Western Front by energetic General Wladyslaw Sikorski before he was named Premier last fortnight of the expatriate Government of Poland set up in Paris (TIME, Oct. 9).* He has enough Polish officers for 30 divisions, but no uniforms; these are being hastily made up. Last week General Sikorski, after instructing his Finance Minister Colonel Adam Koc to try to get from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard...