Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There was no question," said Julien Bryan, "but that Germans slaughtered Polish civilians miles from military objectives. It wasn't a war against soldiers. It was a war against civilians. I arrived in Warsaw after most foreign correspondents had left. Each day I took a car, a camera, and an interpreter and drove out as near the front as I dared go. On September 15, two weeks after the invasion started, I went out to the suburbs on the German side of town...
...Hasn't the President the right to choose his advisers from among businessmen as well as Left Wing liberals...
...Brazil) were hunted by Britain; those west of 35° by the U. S. and Canada. But since the opening of World War II, the great British weather-broadcasting station at Rugby has been silent, lest it give aid to enemy bombers, and U. S. weathermen have been left completely in the dark about weather forecasts east...
Encephalitis. Less widespread than poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), but more destructive, is encephalitis. Young victims are often left stupid, shuffling, problem children, older ones drooling cripples, with muscular tremors, mumbling speech, double vision. Twelve years ago Chemist William John Matheson gave several hundred thousand dollars for a study of the disease. The fund has dwindled, for the Matheson Commission takes no money for treatment. Executive secretary of the Commission is capable Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal who has investigated a remarkable Bulgarian belladonna treatment for chronic cases, long used in Europe. These tablets which Dr. Neal considers "by far the most effective...
Biggest social blow-off in London since the war began was the wedding of Winston Churchill's big blond son Randolph, 28, to the Hon. Pamela Digby, 19, eldest daughter of horsy Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron Digby. During the service Winston wept, but as he left the Queen Anne style St. John's church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph...