Word: major
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...Another major subject of debate is over the merits of present military equipment. Although the French have publicly claimed that Germany lacks artillery, most professionals believe that the Nazis, who started from scratch in 1933, have an edge in modern guns, superior to hoary French models. The Germans use a new 105 mm. howitzer while the French rock along with antiquated Seventy-fives. Some professionals also contend that French rifles are out-of-date, "tall as the Eiffel Tower," hence difficult to conceal, whereas the Germans use a short carbine that snuggles neatly into shallow trenches and shell holes; that...
This week half the universities and colleges in the U. S. were bestowing honorary degrees on such personages as William Lyon Phelps, Evangeline Booth and Major Bowes (see p. 58), without honoring Dorothy Thompson. This week Foreign Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick was introduced at the New York World's Fair as the Woman of 1939, a distinction which might have gone to Dorothy Thompson. Seven million, five hundred and fifty-five thousand readers of 196 newspapers scanned them in vain for the column called On The Record, whose author is Dorothy Thompson. Five and a half million...
...Silliest kudos of the week was announced by Villanova College's President, Rev. E. V. Stanford, who awarded an honorary doctorate of laws for "humanitarian work" to Radio's Major Edward ("Amateur Hour") Bowes...
...Siegel side of the insurance question is considered dynamite by the major networks, but last week Prudential and Metropolitan, the biggest two insurance companies in the U. S., were on the big time air with their side of the story. Their main point: the company agent's functions are so ordered that the best interests of the policyholders must be the agent's, too. Prudential began a five-a-week non-insurance dramatic serial over CBS, called When a Girl Marries, which contents itself with simple commercial testaments to the agent's integrity...
Tschaikowsky: Serenade in C Major (B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; Victor: 6 sides). First modern recording, superb in its string sonorities, of a popular standby...