Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free from the guerillas. The Nanking-Shanghai area, well within Japanese lines, was declared unsafe. At Taiping, between Nanking and Wuhu, Chinese bands infiltrated into the city and fought the small Japanese garrison in the streets. Just north of Shanghai, almost due east of Nanking, at Tungchow, the none-too-modest Japanese communiques claimed their only major success of the week-the de-feat of 10,000 Chinese attempting to cut off this important base from other Japanese-controlled points...
...actions. It is simply that ''Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only to Hitler. Lutheran Schroeder argues that German Protestantism has been divided and Hitler, "looking over the ecclesiastical scratch-sheet for winners," has found none among Protestants. The strongest of them, Martin Niemöller, has (according to Martin Schroeder) been dropped by his followers since his trial. Thus Hitler has turned to Catholicism, the faith in which he was baptized, and which now counts the nominal allegiance of 27,000,000 Germans.' In Austria...
...Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German musician I met as to what he knew about Kubatzki. None of them even knew the name. I rang up every opera house in Germany until I found her at Leipzig. She came up and sang to me in Berlin. After she had sung ten bars it was quite clear that here was the most promising singer of her type since...
...reasons and would, in due course, enable us to obtain legislation conferring the necessary powers" to pay for all this food. It has been bought by ostensibly private British syndicates whose members have confidence in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, a businessman whose reputation for commercial integrity is second to none...
...great power today has a genuine "balanced budget" or equality of actual income and actual expenditure, and none has kept its national debt within prudent bounds. Comparatively, British Government finances make a good showing for the budget period 1938-39. National debt: $40,130,635,000-of which Britain owes the U. S. today $4,487,670,000. Expenditures: $4,721,990,000-an increase from last year of $407,500,000. Estimated surplus: $1,760,000-obtained by covering the actual deficit not shown in the Budget with a loan of $450,000,000 earmarked for Rearmament. Total expenditure...