Word: herioc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rearmament race, somehow dealing with Europe's debts to the U. S. before there is another war, and causing overproduction of such commodities as Sugar to subside. Because Japan and Italy had declined to send delegates and the atmosphere of London today is one of panic-Rearmament; because herioc head-scratching has not shown how to deal with the debts (except to arrange at the proper time some technical humbug permitting borrowing to recommence if the U. S. investor will lend); and because the Chadbourne Sugar Restriction Plan has cracked up with overproduction rampant, there was interest last week...
...when he succeeds in swaying Vienna more than had his father in his debut eighteen years before. Son is like father in many respects but he never forgets the debt he owes to the self-sacrificing mother who is at once the most human and the most herioc person in the biography. Mr. Ewen presents the contemporary life of the musician very factually; he considers the European tours of both the Strauss' and gives a full account of the triumph achieved by the younger Straus in his American visit to Philadelphia...