Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Fechner himself has never specifically agreed to militarizing his boys. But when a move is afoot to cut down on CCC appropriations or to thwart his ambition to make it a permanent agency, he may stress the corps' present military values. Once he was quoted as saying that after the regular six-month CCC enrollment a graduate was "85% prepared for military life." His publicity man says a reporter put the figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter...
Changes. Growing British resentment against this muddling contains enough dynamite to blow up the Chamberlain Cabinet and last week the Prime Minister took the long-expected steps to snuff the fuses. He moved his friend, slow-moving Sir Thomas Inskip, from the post of Minister for the Coordination of Defense, where everyone agreed he had been a first-class failure. Chosen to succeed him was Lord Chatfield, recently retired from active service. It was perhaps the most popular Cabinet move Mr. Chamberlain has ever made...
Finally the gladiators come staggering off the field of combat, gripping their injured members, and collapse on the floor in all the positions the Dying Gaul would have assumed had he been able to move. Immediately after their departure from the ice, which now looks like a strawberry patch after an elephant stampede, the more mundaneminded onlookers rush out and howl with glee at the residue...
Blonde, 19-year-old Dorothy Davis is probably the most beautiful corporation president in the world. Her firm: Love, Inc., of Manhattan. Her commodity: Love, a game. In effect, Love is parchesi with sex appeal. Players start single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews out of Germany and into Palestine...