Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indicted seven times, billed for $5,548,384 in allegedly unpaid income taxes, penalties and interest, liable upon conviction to more than 100 years in prison, 61-year-old Publisher Annenberg affably quipped in Philadelphia: "From the efforts and demands of the Government agents, it appears that I may well paraphrase the words of Nathan Hale-my only regret is that I haven't enough remaining years to give my country." Immensely rich, newly humble Moses Annenberg was meat for Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, who in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch limned a pigmy Annenberg fleeing a gigantic and pursuing...
...shot the war of nerves leaped the Atlantic. All the frights in the Balkans that had seemed remote to U. S. citizens became more understandable; the pledges of neutrality of Rumania, Yugoslavia, Italy, looked a little more real in discussions of U. S. neutrality. There had been no absorbed interest in Europe's war so long as it was a word-war. U. S. citizens looked upon it with impatience, with disgusted weariness, a few with alarm. Or they saw it as an obsessed absorption with insoluble problems, pushed the whole conflict out of their minds. Or they made...
...what about Egypt, neither dominion nor colony, nor full-fledged independency? Strategically crucial in Mediterranean naval plans (see p. 22), a sovereign power that recognizes Britain's special interest in the Suez Canal Zone, Egypt is legally no more than an ally of Britain. This week, Egypt demonstrated how an ally could act to give support...
Significance. For the moment Stalin's interest is to keep the Red Army sitting on Russia's western marches until Hitler smashes Poland thoroughly. When that happens, if Hitler restores Germany's 1914 borders, Stalin might get some fat slices of pre-War Russia just for sitting still. And best of all, Stalin might achieve the Tsarist dream of owning Constantinople and the Dardanelles...
...Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view of the N. A. B. code, that anything but reportorial matter would be in the public interest." Next day the isolationist New York Daily News, while not contesting Miss Thompson's right to be heard on the radio, commented testily: "We cannot help wishing that Dorothy Thompson's son, now about 10, were about 19 instead. If that were the case [she] might perhaps...