Word: got
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dictators' press got raving mad last week at France and Great Britain. Usually such pre-arranged fits of anger spring from some positive antitotalitarian act, such as France's ordering more warplanes from the U. S., Britain's guaranteeing another country's security, Poland's refusal to give up Danzig. What pained Germany and Italy this time, however, was French and British indifference at the German-Italian military alliance (TIME, May 15), which Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop ceremoniously signed at Berlin...
Wheat Country. West of Winnipeg stretches the depressed, marketless wheat country, where once-prosperous farmers have replaced their Fords and Buicks with "Bennett buggies."* Their Majesties got into close touch with the prairies by climbing off and running and walking a mile down the right of way outside of Broadview, Saskatchewan, their train following at a respectful distance...
Neville Chamberlain tried to look like a statesman-imperturbable-but inwardly he was rubbing his hands; he was sure that he had avoided a war which would have been bad business, had got gracefully out of an embarrassing moral obligation to the Czechs, had thrown a cheap sop that would convert a troublesome fellow into a reasonable man with whom Chamberlain could henceforth make profitable connections in this best of all possible worlds...
Elusive Promotion. Not many men get into politics as Edouard Daladier did, not many stay in by such shifts as he has made. He got in via the schoolroom door. His father was a baker in the town of Carpentras and he went to public schools. At the Lycée Duparc in Lyon one of his teachers was Edouard Herriot. By winning first in a history competition at the University of Nimes in 1909, young Daladier obtained an appointment as professor of history at Nimes and a fellowship to study in Rome. Professor Daladier, according to his pupils...
...promotion was rapid. First he taught at Grenoble, then at Marseille, then at Lyon, where his master Herriot was also mayor. Then Daladier got a promotion to the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. At that moment the World War broke out. He entered the Army as a sergeant, fought (Arras, Champagne, Verdun, Flanders), became an infantry captain, earned a Legion of Honor medal, the Croix de Guerre, three citations for bravery. In the autumn of 1919 he went back to take his job at the Lycée Condorcet. Again it eluded him. He stayed just two weeks before...