Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pages. Jacques Doriot's La Liberté urgently needs 500,000 francs. Fascist Col. François de La Roque's Petit Journal, panhandling for millions, has founded a "Club of Friends of the Petit Journal" who give up cigarets or lipstick to contribute 10 francs a month. The Royalist Action Francaise, perennially broke, is still begging another 1,000,000 francs-starting a new campaign on the heels of an old one. Young L'Epoque must have 6,000,000 francs or it will close...
...Last month in the French L'Illustration three French Army doctors declared that in case of war, germs could be introduced into enemy territory by loosing infected rats, fleas and lice. Having chosen the harmful war germ, the army employing it would immunize its own men in advance...
...York World's Fair of 1939 there will be a little bit of everything- including religion. Last month the World's Fair made public its plans for expressing "the pervading influence of religion in every phase of American life." For its Temple of Religion it set aside 50,000 square feet, a many-sided 150-foot tower of vaguely ecclesiastical appearance. The interior, without seats, would serve for lectures and discussions of noncontroversial subjects. From one organ and a carillon, music would "softly pervade" the garden surrounding the tower. The Temple's ground would not be consecrated...
...Merion, Pa. last week, baldish, 62-year-old Josef Hofmann, famed concert pianist, father of a 17-month-old son, grinned when a reporter asked his opinion of 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Greta Garbo. Said Pianist Hofmann: "I think they make a good couple. . . . Certainly there must be some attraction. And even a great musician gets bored with notes and bars and sharps and flats...
Returning to Japan after a four-month tour of the U. S.,Haruko Ichikawa, Japanese author (Japanese Lady in Europe), announced in Tokyo: "American women are proud and arrogant. The men are timid before them to the point of foolishness...