Word: partials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the No. 1 question in the world was what to do to help the Jews. Irish Catholic Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got credit for having activated Neville Chamberlain's negotiations in Paris which found a partial answer to the question. Nowhere were people more horrified at Adolf Hitler's pogrom than in Britain. A poll showed that more than seven Britons out of ten, while sympathetic to Chamberlain, considered the Nazi terror a bar to Chamberlain's "appeasing" relations with the Reich...
Silently in Buckingham Palace the King-Emperor drew a sheet of parchment toward him, dipped pen and signed "George R. I." beneath a proclamation canceling last week the September "Crisis" Proclamation under which the Royal Navy was put under partial, later full mobilization. The new proclamation proclaimed: "His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, doth hereby declare that a case of emergency no longer exists...
...Partial list of props used up at each performance of Hellzapoppin: a dozen bananas, a dozen eggs, three dozen balloons, three dozen carnations, five pounds of beans, 150 pounds of ice. three window panes, one box of candy, one straw...
...line with Weaver's findings-though in some cases ''discovered" independently by other manufacturers using more prosaic methods-are such changes on GM's new cars as lower centre of gravity, improved visibility, partial elimination of running boards, gear shift lever on steering post, door locks on both front doors in some models, locks on ventipanes. Most 1939 cars have the headlights submerged in the fenders; GM's still have their lights mounted independently. Other Weaver conclusions about the public...
...Premier next replied to Leftist charges that his partial abrogation of the 40-Hour Week Law to speed Rearmament after Munich was against the interests of the working class. He cried: "What is this absurd legend which seeks to make believe that a call to work is merely Fascist ideology? What is the meaning of this crusade against the Government which boomerangs against France? . . . We say there is no more imperious national duty than to produce more and better goods! When I ask a vigorous effort, I ask it of all Frenchmen, not only the working class! I will...