Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maneuvers do, in a heartening rout of the invaders. But there were some "nervous" moments. The Army was temporarily cut in two at the Ticino River when Red bombers "destroyed" a strategically important bridge. Toiling engineers threw a temporary bridge across the Ticino in 16 hours-"a fine page in their glorious tradition," crowed Virginio Gayda's Giornale d'ltalia. New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews sourly commented that it was "evidently a very solid and complicated bridge," for he had seen Spanish Loyalists in a fraction of that time build structures strong enough to carry tanks...
Currently exciting comment in London is a provocative, 263-page book that analyzes the tangled family, social, economic and political relationships of Government supporters in the House of Commons. Called Tory M.P., believed the work of several contributors who write under the common pseudonym of "Simon Haxey, " it is an unobtrusive piece of political dynamite, abundantly proves its main point-that people like Lord Balniel are not exceptional among Conservative* members...
Packed with big names, big numbers, in-laws, cousins and old friends, Tory M.P. sometimes reads like the society page of a small-town newspaper conscientiously reporting a family reunion. This has the effect of making wealthy Tories appear less menacing than the authors intended. Also weakening the picture is the fact that many a rich M.P. opposes his cousins, follows some anti-Chamberlain policies that the authors of the book advocate. Persuasive rather than strident, the book is obviously aimed for this autumn's probable General Election, attacks pro-Nazis and the Munich settlement, adopts a stern tone...
...Commission. McNinch's assignment was a clean-up job supposed to last about three months. Under Cleaner-Upper McNinch, FCC has been more turbulent than ever. FCC Commissioners were at odds on its investigations into superpower and radio rates, practically disavowed Commissioner Walker's drastic 1,100 page report on American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Capping the thunder-headed cumulus was Chairman McNinch's unrelenting war on two fellow-Commissioners, publicity-hunting George Henry Payne and the Navy's Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, the Commission's only technical...
...those heights Author Mann last week added a peak in the shape of massive, craggy, 786-page Henry, King of France, crammed with up-to-the-minute politics in 16th-Century dress, royal venery, papist deviltry and a necessary quota of ruffs and ruffians...