Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important fact Laval did not have, as he stepped on the Express du Nord in Paris: that Dictator Pilsudski was fast dying of cancer (see p. 21). When the train stopped for 20 minutes in Berlin, he expected what he got, scant attention from anybody except the French Ambassador. But he was chilled to the marrow, when the train pulled up on a well-guarded siding in Warsaw, by the strange stiffness of the top-hatted Poles. Foreign Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted...
First off, the candidates for President-General tested their strength by rival teas. Mrs. Becker, with Mrs. Magna to help her, served ice cream, cake and punch at the Mayflower Hotel, drew 3,000 Daughters and friends. At the Willard, Mrs. Gillentine, serving only lemonade, drew a scant 2,000 but outdid her rival with a string of celebrities including Speaker of the House Joseph Wellington Byrns and his wife...
That radicalism is a real issue at the University, few Chicagoans deny. But real evidence of radicalism is scant. The Tribune, hunting campus Reds last winter, found only two pinko organizations (National Student League and League for Industrial Democracy), one that was hardly pinko (League Against War and Fascism). Their total membership, out of a student body of 6,000, was between...
...Kelly regime in Chicago has never been regarded by New Dealers as quite savory enough to be rewarded with more than a scant token payment of patronage and favors. Mayor Kelly's unexampled victory was probably enhanced by the disintegration of Chicago's Republican machine which has not recovered from the black eye given it by its scandalous crookery a few years ago. But Mayor Kelly also showed himself a magnificent vote-getter in an election marked by no noteworthy issue. And a political organization able to deliver 800,000 Democratic votes is not one that a President...
Only one German close to the Realmleader has a really loose tongue. Last week it was wagging wildly in Nurnberg where bald, barrel-chested Julius Streicher styles himself "Leader of the Franks" and pays scant respect to Prussia or Berlin. On his soth birthday lately he received the accolade of a personal visit from Adolf Hitler who declared: "There is one man on whose wholehearted support I can depend in every situation and who has never wavered one second, Julius Streicher...