Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for cigar-chewing Congressman Dies (last week he switched to gum), Witness Browder was under wraps. His pipe line to Moscow had failed to inform him of the Communazi non-aggression pact in time to prepare a U. S. explanation in keeping with Comintern ethics. Last week his explanation sounded like something out of a fairy tale: "It [the pact] caused dismay in Tokyo . . . broke the Axis . . . reopens the open door in China . . . lessens the danger, of Fascist penetration in South America . . . is one more step in reaching the Marxian ideal of Communism...
August 21. At midnight the German press suddenly announced that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop would go to Moscow to negotiate an anti-aggression pact with the Soviet Union...
August 24. Hitler flew back to his Chancellery from Berchtesgaden; Ribbentrop, the Soviet agreement signed and sealed, flew home from Moscow...
...Guidonian musical scale. Today he is still a broke violinist, but his Sirela dictionaries in six languages have reached (at $2 to $5) 100,000 hands in a dozen or more countries, and his language is the subject of resolute or amused experiment by radio stations from Manhattan to Moscow...
...Moscow and Rome "responsibility censorship" continued; i. e., correspondents knew that if they sent news that was dangerous or too antagonistic they would be expelled. Chances were that it would become increasingly difficult to report developments impartially...