Word: primed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chimed the Johannesburg Star: "If Prime Minister Chamberlain's peace efforts fail the British people all over the globe will recognize and respond to the call to duty...
...probably been averted," wrote Editor Blum in Le Populaire, "but I feel myself divided between cowardly relief and my sense of shame." Only 36 hours later Leon Blum blazed up and withdrew his Socialist Party's support from the demands which French Premier Edouard Daladier and British Prime Minister Chamberlain had made upon Prague. Although these demands had just been ''unanimously approved" by the whole French Cabinet, three of its members suddenly changed their minds and wrote out their resignations, were with difficulty persuaded by Premier Edouard Daladier to change their minds again, remain in the Cabinet...
...tell Polish and Hungarian envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would be the point at which Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would balk, telling the Führer at Godesberg that, while one piece might have to be carved off Czechoslovakia, it was impossible for His Majesty's Government to make themselves a party to forcing the triple-butchery of carving off three chunks, one each for Germany...
...hours later, still yawing slightly in this unreal course of events, Tex had in his otherwise empty pockets the ownership papers to the 63-foot Winnetta, a 35-year-old schooner which in her $75,000 prime had once raced her sticks off on the Great Lakes, in more recent years had been the little-used property of fiftyish John S. Nairns, an inventor preoccupied with developing an airscrew for propelling ships. Inventor Nairns had sold the Winnetta's motor, but he still had the masts and sails in storage. Last week, lucky Tex scrubbed and buffed away...
Meanwhile there was but little slackening in the flight of gold to the U. S., leading the New York Times to express a prime worry of monetary experts, what to do with it: "It is possible, of course, to sterilize the presence of gold, to keep it from forcing prices upward. . . . But nobody ever has found a way to sterilize the absence of gold. When a country [i. e., in Europe] has too little of the metal, its prices fall, bringing depression...