Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evidence that the Chambermen had been meanly partisan and did not represent the opinion of businessmen he read with slow emphasis from a clipping in which Francis E. Powell, head of the American Chamber of Commerce in London, expressed astonishment that U. S. business should make a "stubborn fight" on the New Deal...
...British Cabinet's grill last week was Scot MacDonald's aristocratic social mentor, Air Minister the Marquess of Londonderry. Since breeding and habit cause British statesmen to disregard what they read in the papers. Lord Londonderry was severely blamed by most of his Cabinet colleagues last week for not informing them months ago that most of what "the newspapers" were printing about German air rearmament was true. Since Deutschland has now stolen an air march on England, the Cabinet last week could only urge Lord Londonderry to build British battle planes as fast as Britains...
...propounded by Judge Görtz in this learned organ of German jurisprudence, "the penalty of Living Death should entail impossibility of making wills, exercising of paternal or civil rights, deprivation of nationality, impossibility of engaging in any commercial activity and complete social ostracism, the sentence to be read publicly." As Judge Görtz observes, the Nazi ax has its disadvantages "because the death penalty may establish a continued relationship between the condemned and the public"-martyrdom...
Last week some 250,000 Manhattanites visited their newly renovated Central Park Zoo, purchased more than 10,000 bags of colored popcorn. Aware of the popcorn's destination, alarmed zoo officials posted bright new signs which read: DO NOT FEED OR ANNOY THE ANIMALS. $25 FINE. The "$25" was a bluff, since New York magistrates fix their own fines, usually assess persistent animal-feeders only $3. But zoomen felt their lie was white in view of such zoological mishaps as the following, all caused in recent years by visitors catering to bestial appetites...
...Examination will begin at 9.15. The blue books will be distributed at that hour. The papers, however, will be distributed at 9 o'clock to these present. The obvious purpose of this arrangement is to allow 15 minutes extra time before the examination to those who may wish to read over the paper...