Word: referring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When an industry wants to put its best foot forward, it is likely to hire a man with a knack for public relations. This man the newspapers will refer to as TSAR. Prime examples: the cinema industry's Hays, baseball's Landis...
...your Feb. 21 issue you refer to Georgi Dimitroff's methods in his Reichstag-fire trial as "indomitable, singlehanded, fighting methods" which caused the German Supreme Court to acquit "the famed Bulgarian Communist." In fact-gathering FORTUNE'S article on British Foreign Policy last March he was "a half-witted Communist stooge." Maybe I am quibbling . . . but would TIME Inc. mind settling its family difference on this point and reveal his status...
...Martha N. Brookings, legislative representative of the W. C. T. U., cried in horror: "The book does not refer to alcohol as a poison." Senator Charles T. Moses snapped: "Certain scientific facts may be misleading and damaging to young minds." Senator Vivian Page shrilled: "We should teach the children that their first drink will be their worst." Thereupon the Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned...
...edge of a bloody revolution, a detachment of U. S. marines stationed at Peking mounted stumpy-legged Mongolian ponies, set to watching over U. S. citizens living outside embassy quarters. Since then, the Peking marines have remained a mounted unit. A fixture in China service, they liked to refer to themselves as "the world's only Horse Marines...
...Germany last week had one of their first good laughs at the expense of the Nazis. For the Nazi Teachers League asserted that henceforth Aryan moppets should have their history purged of Christian symbols: Instead of dates such as 490 B. C. and 1870 A. D. Nazi schoolbooks should refer to 490 V. ZTR. and 1870 N. ZTR., meaning VOR ZEITRECHNUNG and NACH ZEITRECHNUNG (before and after "time computation...