Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recent issues of The New Yorker have devoted quite a little space to a story, which they relate in seeming earnestness, contending that Herr Hitler was killed about four or five years ago and that his place has been taken by a double or doubles since his death...
...Eugenio Pacelli, newly His Holiness Pope Pius XII (see p. 36), the President cabled: "It is with true happiness that I learned of your selection as Supreme Pontiff. Recalling with pleasure our meeting on the occasion of your recent visit to the United States, I wish to take this occasion to send you a personal message of felicitation and good wishes. ROOSEVELT...
With such recent productions as the uncut Hamlet and Welles's Julius Caesar, the theatre has applied grease paint to Shakespeare instead of embalming fluid. But this time Welles has gone too far. He may yet rake in the chips, but to get Five Kings he had to deal with the deuces wild...
...pair of bloodhounds on a recent Hobby Lobby show bayed like banshees during rehearsals, then closed up like mummies when the program went on the air. A CBS announcer a few Sundays back inadvertently attributed the Bab Ballads to Shakespeare. Three years ago Al Jolson ad libbed something about a Pennsylvania hotel that may cost NBC $15,000. If Radio Engineer James Arthur Miller had his way, embarrassing and costly mishaps like these would not happen on the radio...
...greatly simplified terms, the fictitious cases of Jenny and Suzie are the problems which the Administration must face in connection with the recent Union agitation about the Pension Plan. On one side is Jenny whose job is temporary, whose wages must fill an immediate need, and whose old age security lies with her husband. On the other is Suzie whose job is permanent, whose wages must fill a future need as well as an immediate one, and whose old age security depends on no one but herself...