Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's plans. The story by Arthur Krock of President Roosevelt's plans to invite Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and other chiefs of States to a diplomatic conference (TIME, Sept. 7) was almost too fantastic even to be a trial balloon. But observers know there is no fantasy in assuming that Franklin Roosevelt, having performed miracles in U. S. politics, hopes to round out his claim to a big place in history by participating in world affairs. Any European adventure would bring U. S. isolationists howling about his ears, but U. S. Presidents have a free rein...
...Tonawanda, N. Y. plant. Tycoon Rand wanted them to walk through picket lines, thus give loyal employes courage to follow. When the Bergoff huskies tried it, they were showered with bricks. "Rand," recounted Bergoff last week, "kind of put it over on me. I didn't know my men were getting into quite such a dangerous spot. He even wanted me to bring women up there, but I didn't do it, and I'm glad I didn't. . . . He said the work was 'very satisfactory.' I asked him if he wanted...
Washington should refuse to be responsible for any individual whose person or property is endangered in a country at war. It is the fault of the American people if they don't know enough to stay at home and to keep their money in domestic pockets. Even Washington seems dubious of foreign entanglements, as they have recently forbidden American representatives to marry foreign-born women...
...Well . . . eh . . . I don't know just what I can say . . . eh . . . Is my time time up yet? . . . Gee, I can't think of anything . . . aw nuts...
...picture has enough vitality to throw new life into a lot of matter otherwise dead. Joan Crawford, for example, is the familiar overly-rich heiress who doesn't know what to do with herself and her money, until she meets a poor man. That person in this case is Clark Gable, and he is a reporter, which class doesn't learn his identity until he and she have stolen a airplane, scared about a million people in taking off, crashed the plane, found a spy map in it, dressed up like French peasants, spent a night in Fontaineblean Palace with...