Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France's other bogey of the week was the new Chamber of Deputies which sits next month. The farthest Left France has ever gone, with 72 Communists and a Socialist-dominated majority, this was actually a very pale pink. Last week the French Press blazed with the boasts, threats and possible and probable intentions of just one man: Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Aside from France's money troubles (see p. 71), this rich old Jew last week made news at every breath...
...copy. No slouch on the mechanical side of the business, Publisher Gollancz took a lesson from German Tauchnitz, standardized the binding and typography of his product. Since the world fell on troubled times, he has had the wit to add to his large general list a lively line of pink political writings which have made his firm the semi-official organ of Britain's intellectual Left. Although Publisher Gollancz says he expects to do no better than make ends meet with the Left Book Club, its membership is thoroughly circularized with impelling Gollancz advertising calculated to whet the notoriously...
...haze over the Hudson, flew on toward Lakehurst, N. J. There a huge crowd had lined the U. S. Navy's vast lighter-than-air field for hours. At 5140 a.m. someone spotted the Zeppelin's big round nose poking up over the horizon in a pink glow from the rising...
...Lobster-pink on the platform last week he cried...
...peacetime.* He made Air Minister Hermann Goring and Army Chief of Staff Werner von Fritsch colonel-generals and Fleet Commander Erich Raeder an admiral-general (something new). Colonel-general and admiral-general were also promoted to full Cabinet rank. To the smiling group in the Chancellery, suffused with pink German sentiment, the Führer readily launched into oratory: "On this day I look back with pride and joy upon the years that lie behind us. ... Our miraculous resurrection fills me with deep gratitude toward all those who, by their faithful cooperation, have made possible my successful leadership...