Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Johnson had declared a truce on verbal bombing for the duration of hostilities: "I am going to be ... careful ... to abstain from too many joyous wisecracks and in my small way hold up the hands of every person in public life who is trying ... to keep us out of war. ..." A few days later he forgot his resolutions when (in a column favoring censorship for radio) Dorothy Thompson wrote: "Do we want to hear General Johnson presented as a military expert and . . . make remarkable (and most inaccurate) statements about why we entered the last...
Back to his guns went the General to reply: "Bless your heart, Dorothy, my stuff isn't nearly as biased and inflammatory as yours. . . . Ever since Miss Thompson was rudely treated in Germany she . .. has been a breast-beating Boadicea urging us to flaming action. She sometimes seems to think that the issues of war are her and Hitler...
...after the Times rebuked its crack London reporter, Frederick Birchall and some 30 other correspondents gathered in the big, cream-walled conference room on the first floor of the Ministry to recite their grievances. Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty...
...first week of World War II hit U. S. stock and bond markets like a whirlwind. Many a man was still alive who remembered that Bethlehem Steel flew from a low of 25 in 1914 to a 1915 high of 600, General Motors from 58⅞ to 558. Last week's main gyrations...
Heavy Industries carried the biggest label: "War Babies." Bethlehem Steel, prize baby of World War II, was up 30%, Big Steel up 31%. The 8-11% rise of Westinghouse and General Electric was credited to their varied electrical wares-from light bulbs to battleship machinery...