Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace Passion. For a dozen years the U. S. had enjoyed peace with placid satisfaction. In this new pre-war world peace became an emotional issue. As the anti-war chorus swelled, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, emerging from nine years of obscurity as a minor radical in Congress, led the shouting. The Senate gave him carte blanche and $50,000 to investigate the part which munitions makers and their bankers had played in implicating the U. S. in World...
Just then, Paraguay and Bolivia renewed their brawl over the tropical swamp known as the Chaco. In the spirit of the hour both Senate and House hastily authorized President Roosevelt to place an embargo on shipments of arms to both sides in the minor squabble. The League of Nations joined the U. S. in this first attempt to discourage a war by refusing to sell lethal weapons to both combatants. The arms embargo did not stop the fighting...
...flamboyant French actor-playwright-producer; and Genevieve de Seréville, 18, beauteous, stagestruck debutante; he for the fourth time (other brides: Charlotte Lysés, Yvonne Printemps, Jacqueline Delubac); in Versailles. Hour before the wedding Actor Guitry personally invited President & Mme Lebrun. They hedged, finally sent a minor official in their stead...
Bach: Partita No. 6 in E Minor (Walte Giesekmg, pianist; Columbia, 4 sides) Beautifully sculptured; best piano record mg of the month...
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor ("Tragic") (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor, 8 sides). First modern recording of a work not frequently played which nonetheless stands up alongside the Schubert Eighth ("Unfinished") and Seventh ("Of Heavenly Lengths") symphonies...