Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury* John Hanes was roused. Lights went on in all Washington's key executive offices. Before breakfast time, the President was ready with the only gesture he could think of in the face of world disaster: a plea to Germany, Poland, Britain, France, Italy to refrain from bombing "open" cities and noncombatants. Within a few hours the heads of all these nations replied, in a chorus that sounded sickeningly cynical however truly meant: they would each do as Mr. Roosevelt suggested so long as their antagonists did likewise. Mussolini took the occasion to reiterate Italy's neutrality...
Into my sales kit today goes current TIME open at pp. 34-35. What a sales portfolio would I and thousands of Studebaker salesmen have in a TIME carrying in one issue the ads of all companies that cooperate with Studebaker in making CHAMPION the great Champion it is. For instance, Firestone Champion tires, Champion plugs, Lockheed brakes, Willard batteries, Timken bearings, Perfect Circle rings, Carter carburetors, and other items...
...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...Polish descent), finally shot her in the hips, chest, stomach with a shotgun. Throughout the U. S. men & women streamed to the Polish, German, British, French and Italian consulates, offering to enlist as reserves, volunteers, nurses. U. S. Poles quickly collected $1,000,000 for Warsaw. Everywhere consulates kept open doors all day except the British, which closed each afternoon at 3:30 p. m. for 4 o'clock tea. Thousands of aliens rushed to naturalization offices, seeking U. S. citizenship in a hurry...
...science. Unfortunately the Frenchmen, who by nature are the worst colonists in the world, regarded Poland as a colony. Edward Smigly-Rydz took neither to them nor to their theories of dynamic defense against modern fire power, preferred a strategy of enveloping attack, what Pilsudski called the strategy of "open spaces." During last year's Polish Army maneuvers, the German military attache asked what use Poland, with its terrible roads, had for tanks. The Marshal smiled and said: "Ah, but you have good roads." The Marshal is a scholar-technician rather than a leader-drillmaster. Like France's Maurice Gamelin...