Word: mongering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George May were a politician he would know that this is a poor year to talk to British voters of budget retrenchments. But he is no vote-monger; he is an able financier, an insurance man. In the report which his committee presented was the blunt warning: "The nation cannot go on borrowing to meet its current requirements." He urged a budget slash of $469,370,000. Labor's Big Five studied the May report sourly last week, looking for some economies which could be put in force without costing political necks...
...late great Good Old Days publishers would think twice, thrice, about putting out solid wares in the light-minded summer season, would generally offer fripperies and froufrou. Competition has somewhat altered the case, but summer still turns (temporarily) many a serious publisher into a souffle-monger. Here are two concoctions guaranteed digestible in hot weather...
...COLUMNIST MURDER-Lawrence Saunders-Farrar & Rinehart ($2).- No one has yet shot smooth-haired, Gossip-Monger Walter Winchell (New York Mirror's "On Broadway") though Zit's Theatrical Newspaper hinted more than six months ago he would be killed within six months (TIME, Nov. 3). Author "Lawrence Saunders" (Burton Davis) calls the victim of his murder-story "Tommy Twitchell," has him shot in a theatre telephone booth during a first-night performance, proceeds with his unraveling tale in a style that owes much to his hero's prototype. As a murder story The Columnist Murder...
...impervious to criticism is Benito Mussolini. He explained last week the series of fiery speeches in which he not long ago called cannon beautiful (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Conscious that the French press has been painting him successfully as a war monger, Il Duce said with quiet earnestness...