Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good bet that, in pre-Babylonian days, bookies made money. But, without the services of such modern inventions as Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph, Moses Annenberg could never have made a fortune selling horse-race information. Rented wires are the arteries of his Nationwide News Service and allied enterprises, which have the cream of the business of sending tips and results to bookmakers, sell to many a newspaper and radio station as well...
...active, wiry Harry Yarnell became Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet with the rank of Admiral. He had no hobby but his assignment, of which he made a deep and unremitting study. In his hot spot in the Far East he sat coolly, made the U. S. fist in Asia something to be reckoned with. Last summer the Japanese Navy warned a U. S. destroyer out of China's port of Swatow. "We're staying at Swatow," radioed Admiral Yarnell, said further that he would hold Japan responsible for U. S. lives lost. The State Department backed...
Indicted Earl Browder, Communism's No. 1 spokesman in the U. S., made the announcement in Boston. Because it was Browder who spoke, his hearers knew that the "new party line" was really Moscow talking. A quick transition to socialism in the U. S. is now the object of his party, said he, returning to Joseph Stalin's old theme: that the U. S. is ripe for collapse and revolutionary restitution. Of his more recent declarations (that socialism is not now practicable for the capitalistic U. S.) Earl Browder made no mention last week. Said he, abandoning Communist...
Russians were told that Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko had made a speech at Helsinki in which he denounced "Russian imperialism" and cried, "There is a limit to everything. Finland cannot accept the proposals of the Soviet Union and will defend her territory and her inviolability and independence by all means!" Pravda headlined its story ERKKO INCITES TO WAR!, editorialized that this speech "cannot be understood except as an appeal for war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." In Moscow only the diplomatic-journalistic colony was aware that Mr. Erkko never uttered the words quoted by Pravda...
...Helsinki diplomatic Mr. Erkko remarked easily that the Russians "must have got hold of a wrong translation," but Pravda stuck grimly to contending that Finland's Foreign Minister had shown "exactly the same attitude as that of former Foreign Minister Beck of Poland. He [Beck] too made provocative speeches before the war between Poland and Germany and-as a result of this-provoked the war with Germany...