Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this a Democratic election?" asked the Berlin Tageblatt. ''Or was it the eruption of the Führer idea within the democratic system?" Answered the London News Chronicle: "Neither Hitler nor Mussolini has ever dared to submit himself to a free vote with business and the press against him as Roosevelt has done. Neither would dare to do so today...
...Standard now operates 12,000 trucks and 4,000 cars, second largest fleet in the U. S.* Jack Winchester is manager of the lot. He is also president of the New Jersey Motor Truck Association, vice president of the American Trucking Association. Three years ago, Truckman Winchester conceived the idea of a national truck show, got Standard Oil and several truck makers to sponsor the first one in a Newark armory. Last week, as automobilemen prepared for their 1936 Automobile Show across the river in Manhattan (see p. 93), held in Newark under Jack Winchester's management...
...exhibited in his rage at being presented a $50 story prize rather than a $25 poetry prize. The hostility which his literary criticism met in later years may actually have been due to the philistinism of his times, but in the play it appears mainly due to his idea that the U. S. literary scene consists of Edgar Allan Poe. He invades a party in the famed salon of Anne Lynch in Manhattan, threatens to thrash a man who is slandering his character, starts drinking from the punch bowl instead. His recital of The Raven is interrupted, inevitably, by news...
...King is known to be strongly attached to Mrs. Simpson, to whom he admits he owes much. She has given him new confidence in himself, and it is said he now no longer views with aversion the idea of matrimony. But informed circles stress that if he does marry, the bride will not be Mrs. Simpson, although he will remain Mrs. Simpson's friend. . . . It is said Mrs. Simpson's sensible point of view received the approval of the Queen, who invited her to a luncheon at Marlborough House last week...
...years U. S. motor manufacturers have urged lowering of the U. S. tariff on cars, with the idea that only after this was done could they win reciprocal tariff cuts abroad and break heavily into European markets. Today, with the U. S. tariff on imported cars down to a trifling 10%, they are being bought for fun and swank in commercially negligible quantities. U. S. makers watch foreign imports in a mood of amused tolerance far different from that of automobile men overseas. In the United Kingdom the industry is so scared of U. S. and even Canadian competition that...