Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of this was about Tunisia, where the population is 2,400,000 natives, 94,000 Italians and 108,000 French. Mussolini promised to agitate no more over Tunisia. The gist of what Laval promised Mussolini about Tunisia was that certain special rights enjoyed by Italians for many years in this French protectorate, will be guaranteed at least until 1965. As soon as the Cabinet of Premier Leon ("French New Deal") Blum was formed, Italians began receiving ever stronger impressions that these rights would be taken away...
...eyed wife. Baroness Olga von Norden-flycht, brought hot food and coffee to his desk, occasionally led him outdoors for a walk and fresh air. His earliest broadcast was at 5 a. m., his latest at 11 p. m. After each talk he received a batch of letters. Their gist: in times of stress, listeners prefer conclusions and even bias to straight factual reporting...
Instead of keeping their Downing Street talk secret for hours or days, the British and French chiefs smashed another precedent by having the gist of what they had said flashed to all the world immediately. M. Daladier was revealed, for example, to have readily agreed with Mr. Chamberlain's long exposition that to fight for Czechoslovakia would not save her but only result in twofold catastrophe. First, said Mr. Chamberlain, the Czech Army would massacre the Sudetens as traitors who would be caught between them and the German Army. Second, the Germans would have enough success in the first...
Judge Rutherford's rambling, worldwide speech was entitled "Face the Facts." Its gist: "A hideous monstrosity is rapidly moving to rule the world by dictators and to regiment the people. God, by His holy prophets, thousands of years ago, as recorded in the Bible, foretold this great menace, its cause, and what will be the result...
French Corsica lies only a few miles from Italian Sardinia. Sardinian islanders always hear the gist of the speeches Corsican Campinchi makes on his native soil, and in Rome for some time he has been rated a menace by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda who last week could only construe the navy minister's remarks as an attack on the "uncontrolled power" of Benito Mussolini. Editor Gayda recently called M. Campinchia "renegade , Corsican" whose speeches are "the nefarious ravings of a sectarian madman with criminal leanings" and who writes "filthy prose, worthy only of a meeting of drunkards...