Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that censorship is successful merely because it is thoroughly repressive. The Russia of Alexander III was certainly subjected to as stringent a repression as is modern Germany; yet in spite of this revolutionists were more active and numerous in Russia than anywhere else on the face of the globe...
...issue of TIME, rather resent some of the distinctions wished upon us by your reviewer. After giving various intimate details with respect to our private lives (which would appear to have little to do with the merits or demerits of our book), the reviewer proceeds: "Both rebuffed globe-girdling Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks when he tried to hire them for small parts in his Mr. Robinson Crusoe. Both have been made (by decree of Governor Léonce Jore of French Oceania) chieftains in the Kilyan tribe...
...Martin went to Manhattan, persuaded Simon & Schuster to sell him newspaper rights to the 513 pictures. The Register & Tribune started it at home. Circulation zoomed while book sales held up strong. Two months later Salesman Martin sold the Detroit News; next, the Boston Globe. The three papers combined reported an 80,000 increase in circulation, held it after the series ended. The Washington Star, Baltimore Sun, and the Philadelphia Bulletin fell into line. William Randolph Hearst began to feel the pinch, quickly ordered the syndicate series for all his papers in the 13 cities still open. Scripps-Howard rushed...
...waste any time in protesting any further against the appropriation by the Government of nearly $4,000,000,000 of gold, not one dollar of which it ever lifted its finger to honestly acquire, not a dollar of it. ... No other civilized nation on the face of the globe has ever seized the gold of its central bank...
...adoption by statute of such a lower gold content of the Canadian dollar would," said the Globe, "undoubtedly have widespread reaction. It would in due time reduce by one-third the burden of all indebtedness payable in Canadian currency, and would tend to increase prices of commodities in the domestic trade of Canada in similar proportion...