Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heir-apparent to Dictator Stalin's job. He became next in line when a bullet removed the original runner-up, Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Mironovich Kirov. The idea that Heir-Apparent Zhdanov can have a personal opinion about anything not shared by the Kremlin would make even dour Comrade Stalin laugh...
...British Government, alarmed over the Danzig situation, was reported virtually to have conceded every Russian demand. Concessions were: 1) Specific military guarantees to the Baltic States; 2) Anglo-French-Russian staff consultations before the alliance becomes effective; 3) specific pledges by Britain and France not to make a separate peace during war, leave Russia holding the bag. Sole outstanding issue left to quibble over was Russia's demand that the Baltic States also be guaranteed against a change of internal regime, i. e. Nazification. If the pact reports proved true and the Anglo-Russian Pact is at last...
...known that they had no intention of settling the Tientsin problem as an isolated issue and announced that the Tokyo conference would be the occasion for demands for British "cooperation." If the British refuse to reverse their whole policy in China, "the necessary action" will be taken to make "a fundamental solution of the concession issue...
...Glenview, Ill., last week a golf pro named Cyril Wagner, pooh-poohing the failure of a Michigan City colleague to make a hole-in-one after 17 hours of trying the week before, made a locker-room bet ($325 against a brand new automobile) that he could not only make one hole-in-one but two of them within 24 hours. Accompanied by three suitcases of balls, six caddies and two scorekeepers, he took his stance on the 17th tee of the Elmgate Country Club at 8:15 in the evening, began to wham away - at the rate of three...
Oddest quirk in the saga of Jimmy-in-Hollywood is that under another name Mr. Roosevelt might well make more money. When Cinemagnate Goldwyn hired him last year, just as Trust Buster Thurman Arnold had poised his ax over the cinema industry, Hollywood feared that if he were paid too much he would be resented as a last-minute Pocahontas. Jimmy Roosevelt has stayed as far away from the antitrust prosecutions as possible, although he was named as a defendant in the Goldwyn suit. He has served as Goldwyn representative on the board of United Artists and as Mr. Goldwyn...