Word: losers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazis' ignorant and irritating foreign policy. Hindenburg may have been a general, and as a general might not have felt the private's horror for the carnality of conflict, but he was also a diplomat, and a stiff necked one, and thus privy to the disadvantages of negotiating a loser's peace. And even if his post war love of peace was the facile reaction of a spanked child, a whole Hindenburg would still know how to count armies, and that small armies cannot throw mud at big armies without a disastrous fight. But this much at least...
...Publisher Alfred John Kobler of the Hearst tabloid Mirror made a fortune as president of Hearst's rich American Weekly. The Mirror, long a money-loser, is supposed...
...really expected to win the Harmsworth Cup Hubert Scott-Paine proved last week that he was a better loser than boat-driver. Said he, after the first race: ''The best time of my life . . . the water was beautiful . . . my boat ran up to expectations. . . ." Unlike Kaye Don, whose Miss England III broke down last year in the Harmsworth races, Hubert Scott-Paine has no backer. Like Gar Wood, he builds his own boats, works on them with a staff of six mechanics with whom he shared quarters in Detroit last week. At 14. Hubert Scott-Paine ran away...
...flagship Pennsylvania he will follow the make-believe combat by radio, deciding which ship sinks which. When the engagement is broken off, he will summon all staff officers and ship commanders aboard the Pennsylvania for a critical discussion of Problem No. 14. He will announce no winner, no loser...
...Reparations, which it was the object of the Lausanne settlement last year to end." At Lausanne the Allies promised to forgive Germany all but 1? on $1 of her Reparations debt IF they were similarly forgiven their War Debts by the U. S., which would thus be the ultimate loser (TIME, July 18). In Washington the Chamberlain speech was ipecac last week to Senators who retched at the Chancellor's bland assertion that what he proposed is "best for the world...