Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York has in the course of his checkered career been by turns a Republican and a Fusionite, a standard bearer of the American Labor Party. He is also a good friend of the New Deal and has said he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered. Rumor recently whispered that Thomas Gardiner Corcoran was advising him on ways & means of controlling his State's delegation to next year's Democratic Convention, possibly with a view to obtaining another nomination for Franklin Roosevelt, perhaps to offer New Deal support...
...pacts with Herr Hitler are not finding a very good market at the present moment. The Scandinavian public is dead set against them. Even when the British a few weeks ago suggested they might guarantee the Scandinavian countries' independence, they showed no enthusiasm. They want neutrality, not pacts. Obviously, all four would have liked to reply to Germany in unison: "Thank you, Herr Hitler, but we don't want any pacts...
...major crisis, Germans and Italians were busy power-politicking on a half-dozen other fronts. Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...
...Amoy. In terms of U S dollars, the Japanese yen fell below the value of the Chinese dollar, the yen falling under 16? while the Chinese dollar held firm at 16.11?. For the Japanese, who have been trying to persuade the Chinese that their money was just as good as Chiang Kai-shek's and who have made valiant efforts to keep Japanese-sponsored currency at par with the British and U S-supported Chinese dollar, this was as serious as a big defeat on the battlefield Many a Chinese coolie, farmer or worker in Japanese "conquered" territory...
When his first Broadway play, My Heart's in the Highlands, closed last week. Modest-Violet William Saroyan wired th Broadway critics: "The custom of reviewing a play on opening night is a good one, I believe, but not quite complete enough. I sincerely suggest, therefore that, if possible, you review the closing night also...