Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Tokyo U. S. recognition of U. S. S. R. was interpreted almost as an unfriendly act, the Japanese Press being alert to see and exploit its economic potentialities in case of hostilities. After one flying visit to Moscow William Christian Bullitt, President Roosevelt's new Ambassador, returned to...
Mr. Fisher does succeed, in "Passions Spin the Plot," in keeping his straight-forward method at an unusually high level. Most of the irrelevancies are later reclaimed and justified; a clear continuity of impression has been preserved. Vridar Hunter, an Idaho farm boy, first of his line to enter the...
THE FIRST BILLION : The Stillmans and the National City Bank-John K. Winkler-Vanguard ($2.50). Once upon a time bankers were considered the pillars of Church & State. Even 25 years ago such a word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U...
SEA LEVEL - Anne Parrish - Harper ($2.50). Modern Magellans pay cash not only for the privilege of circumnavigating the globe but for the doubtful pleasure of doing it in each other's company. World cruises are obviously an improvement on the grand tours of yesteryear, for they cover more ground...
Elmer Thomas did not reach the U. S. Senate till 20 years after Gore had first arrived there. By his law practice and shrewd investments he had built himself an independent fortune. One of his shrewd investments was Medicine Park, created when he decided that Oklahoma needed a summer resort...