Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity Debating Council will contest a bevy of Radcliffe orators today at 3 o'clock over Station WAAB and the Mutual network, a national hook...
...have photographic surveys of the disputed, triangular-shaped territory taken, to consider what would be natural boundaries, to take full economic account of such entities as river valleys and mountain ranges. The arbitrators were to make their awards on the basis of "antecedents" as well as problems of "mutual security and geographic and economic necessities...
...scheduled German push to the East. The whole Munich settlement situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which Adolf Hitler drew on his map at Godesberg...
When Malin Craig became Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in 1935, he found a military mutual aid society thriving in Washington. Ranking generals excused themselves or were excused from physical examinations. Old colonels were promoted to brigadier general, old brigadiers to major general, on the theory that a long life in arms deserved a good ending with maximum retirement pay. The result, in Malin Craig's opinion, was that the list of generals on active duty included too many inactive crocks...
...without a commentator until Mutual's Publicist Lester Gottlieb called in a friend, Quincy Howe, who had rarely been heard over radio before. After a 15-minute audition of comment on fake news bulletins, Howe was hired and told to report at once. Little, loquacious, quick, Quincy Howe is the author of the satire England Expects Every American to Do His Duty. MBS was afraid he was too inexperienced, but after breezing through his first broadcast without a hitch, he remarked casually: "I was grateful that I got off on the nose...