Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistant and Lima Conference companion, fox-faced Adolf Berle, now occupies the Stimson Washington mansion of Woodley, where Mr. Hull plays croquet weekly. The mild-mannered Secretary, one of the world's most fluent monotone cussers, addresses his opponent's croquet balls (if people have heard him right), saying: "Hitler, you son-of-a-bitch," and "Mussolini, damn you!" before whanging them into Coventry...
...imports to save its foreign exchange), the military men professed to believe that the Japanese war machine in China had bogged down. Cheeriest of all was dapper little General Chen Cheng, Political Minister of the National Military Council, one of the central figures in the Central Military Academy clique, right-hand man to the Generalissimo. Said he: "Before 1941 Japan will be begging for peace." The General's rosy picture was painted from numerous facts, figures, estimates, generalizations gathered and made by Chinese, in part substantiated by foreign observers. Background for Chinese military optimism...
...nominally a Conservative, he has often played for a time on other political sides if he thought the game suited him that way. Most British politicos therefore mistrust him. But he has had an unsettling record of being right a long time before most people realized it. Ever since Adolf Hitler became Führer in 1933 Mr. Churchill has been preaching rearmament. He was one of the first Conservative statesmen to warn that the Empire's great enemy was to be found not in Moscow but in Berlin. He long plugged for a British-French combination to stop...
...mass suggested by the main rural exposition building at Brno, Czecho-Slovakia, St. Austin's was designed as a simple parabolic vault with the parish house springing out at right angles from the apse. As simple and logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...
...hanged Javier Bueno from the wall of his office in a harness of barbed wire and fed him copies of his Avance. Bueno got out of prison in the general amnesty that followed the 1936 elections and refused to join Largo Caballero's revolutionary movement. But when the Right revolted a few months later, Javier Bueno stuck with the Government, and that cost him his life...