Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile rising French unemployment crossed the 400,000 mark for the first time. Admittedly M. Flandin-younger than Roosevelt, Mussolini or Stalin*- faces a titanic task in attempting to bring French economy back to an even keel without invoking some spectacular "ism." Interviewed last week by the New York Times's smart Anne O'Hare McCormick, the tall, big-boned, broad-browed Premier declared...
...again been rising. In 1933 nine officers and 48 men killed themselves, Surgeon General Robert Urie Patterson reported last week. Small though their ratio was to the 136,491 men in the Army, these self-inflicted deaths lifted the suicide rate more than half way to the high mark which apparently presages...
...TRANSIENTS-Mark Van Doren- Morrow...
...Mark Van Doren, of the literary Van Dorens (Sister-in-law Irita is editor of the Herald Tribune Books; Brother Carl is chief editor of the Literary Guild), is a poet. Though he is 40, The Transients is his first novel. In self-consciously dignified prose he tells a poetic parable...
...first place, the economic situation in the Great Powers bodes ill for the future. French unemployment figures have for the first time in history passed the four hundred thousand mark. It is common knowledge that Mussolini is wrestling manfully, though none too successfully, with internal difficulties, of which rising unemployment is but one instance, and that the lira rests on none too firm a foundation. Germany's condition would cause less stoical a man than Hitler to weep. Her trade balance would be justly complimented by being called unfavorable, and her political stability is almost wholly dependent on the extent...