Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascist consumption. Featured instead is the fact that Il Duce pilots his own plane, rides horseback, swims, skis, can lead his militiamen in a half-mile trot or a goose step. The Dictator's hair is cut close to his head so that neither increasing greyness nor baldness is noticeable. His physical endurance is still greater than that of most of the younger Fascists of his entourage...
Against such a background neither Mr. Nash nor his Labor Government was expected to get much sympathy from London's big financiers, who are far more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew...
This year Chairman McNinch dragged FCC's brawls into Congress with a reorganization bill that would let him eliminate Commissioners Payne and Craven, remove many lesser FCC jobs from civil service. But neither Frank McNinch nor his Chief is so popular with Congress as he once was, and the FCC reorganization bill was shelved...
When a Laguna Beach, Calif. garage owner named Harold Bradley was solemnly tapped on the back by his grey-haired fellow citizen Roy M. Ropp and told: "You are The Laughing Cavalier," he neither called a cop, took to his heels, nor swung on the tapper. Like all good Lagunites, Bradley knew at once that this tapping singled him out for an honor-the honor of depicting one of the Living Masterpieces in Director Ropp's famed "Pageant of the Masters...
...penalty tariff on Japan's exports to the U.S. would hit the silk trade. Japan produces 75% of the world's raw silk, the U.S. consumes almost all of it, and neither can find an adequate market or source of supply elsewhere. U.S. women would suffer by paying more for silk stockings (half the world's silk sheathes their legs) and Japan would be threatened with permanent loss of part of her silk market to nylon, rayon and other synthetic U.S. yarns...