Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industriously in London last week solid, bull-necked French Premier Edouard Daladier and lean, hawk-nosed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did their potent best to spoil the grandiose State visit which pudgy, mystic Adolf Hitler was to make to Italy this week, escorted by a retinue of 170 German officials, plus 70 German editors, plus 84 German photographers. The privileged photographers were fitted out last week for the first time in blue-grey uniforms with a visored cap and flowing cape. The privileged German editors each received two blue-black uniforms and six pairs of gloves, were warned...
Since Iran was bent on proving her independence, lean pickings were in store for British advisers, British business. Ships were ordered from Italy and Italian officers were engaged to teach Iranian landlubbers theories of navigation. Barter trade was established with Soviet Russia and German goods began to pour into Iran under a clearing agreement arranged by the wily Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Among the first arrivals were 100 German warplanes for the Iranian air force. Danes. Czechs...
...stragglers live precarious lives. Year in, year out, the most generous subsidies to the French press and French journalists are tossed out where they will do the most good, by the French Government and its constituent parties. When moderates ran France, the leftwing press suffered lean days. Since 1936, roles have been reversed. The Popular Front press has licked the subsidy platter clean. The Left & Right papers have raised their price per copy three times in a year, but after nearly two years on a bread & water diet most of the conservative dailies are in the last stages of anemia...
...Washington such a jolt as came next. The President ascribed part of the South's economic difficulties to old-fashioned feudalism, added that: "When you come down to it, there is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist system. If you believe in the one you lean to the other." Reaction to the President's curt speech by a tobacco-chewing crowd which had expected a few congratulatory truisms was one of silent, hurt amazement. Next day, it was echoed by the Southern press, by which time the President was in a fairly snappish mood himself...
...Manhattan last week Derek D. Dickinson, a tall, lean, pale U. S. citizen of 38, showed his discharge papers from the Leftist Spanish Air Force. He claimed that last fall he went up from Valencia in answer to a radio from Dictator's Son Bruno Mussolini asking that someone good be sent up to duel with him. The rendezvous was at 15,000 feet, eleven miles out to sea from Valencia, and according to Derek D. Dickinson each duelist was escorted by three planes which acted only as observers or seconds at the duel. The weapons: a Spanish-built...