Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron-master Stalin yesterday showed a two-sided complexity that would do credit to a Talleyrand. In his recent interview with Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he categorically states, in direct confirmation of the views of Chamberlin and Duranty, that non-interference, no Communist Party subsidizing, and peace with America stand primly and companionably among a row of other ideals...
...humbleness. With an obscure jute career behind him, he turned up in London about 15 years ago, changed his name for no apparent reason, set out to impose an economy of scarcity upon the world's tin industry. By the end of the 1920's he was master of a $165,000,000 group of British companies, mainspring of the potent International Tin Committee and a power in Empire affairs. The tin restriction plans which were incorporated in an international pact signed at The Hague in 1931 originated with an unsuccessful Howeson tin pool, which was stuck with...
...called School Days in which frisky scholars tossed apples at their teacher and blurted low-calibre puns. To Stuyvesant High School, on the other hand, went 3-A, a divertissement called Parisian Nights. Intended for military consumption, this program included a scene between a bare-legged young woman, a master of ceremonies and an importunate young man. Sample dialog...
...protest vehemently against this most fascistic treatment accorded to Major-General Hagood. If, on the other hand, it is a body whose sole aim is to perpetuate New Dealism, or, perhaps, to turn it into something even more socialistic, we can only expect it to refrain from criticizing its master, just as we would expect the N.S.L. and the S.L.I.D., of which it is largely composed, to refrain from criticizing Soviet Russia, and the dictatorship of Stalin...
Dean Holmes received his Master's Degree...