Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ministry of Economic Warfare cleared its way by announcing that Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare entitled Britain to retaliate, and by solemnly adding that "no blockade of Germany in the formal sense of the term has been declared." It was to be simple strangulation: thoroughgoing, but informal. The idea was, not only to prevent anything helpful from reaching Germany direct, but to "ration" Germany's neutral neighbors so as to make sure no helpful surpluses would spill over their borders into Hitlerland...
...worry of all broadcasters is how to make strategists, commentators, etc. earn their keep. One way (already registered at the U. S. copyright office) was suggested last week by Manhattan Press-agent Joseph P. Annin, a Wartime aerial reconnaissance officer. Annin's idea, which he got while traveling cross-country in an airliner, is to sell radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling...
...people of all nations the idea of war; 2) morally ashamed...
April 28. In Berlin Hitler said to the Reichstag: "During the whole of my political activity I have always expounded the idea of close friendship between Germany and England. ... I am now, however, compelled to state that . . . war against Germany is taken for granted in that country. . . . The basis for the [Anglo-German] naval treaty has been removed. I have therefore resolved to send today a communication to this effect to the British Government . . . . As regards German-Polish relations . . . some months ago I made a concrete offer to the Polish Government: 1) Danzig returns as a free state into...
...used to express not only single words, but complete thoughts. To these combinations at present there is no rhyme nor clue. They stand for what Carlo Spatari believes they ought to stand for. Originally he had thought of making them up so they could be sung, but that idea proved unmelodious...