Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Germany gobbled Austria she swallowed three indigestible items. First, Austria's foreign debts, which, from her action last week, Germany intends to digest by ignoring them. Second, while Reichsbanker Dr. Hjalmar Schacht hurried to Vienna to impound $43,000,000 of Austrian gold reserves he also realized that another $32,000,000 of Austria's foreign exchange reserves was banked abroad, $25,000,000 in London. Extensive litigation will be necessary before this money can be released and Dr. Schacht's chief fear now is that the courts will turn the money into payments on loans...
With the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the steamy Gran Chaco region still unsettled after three years' armistice, another long-disputed area last week loomed as a second Chaco. For almost 400 years the peoples of Ecuador and Peru have been squabbling over the Oriente, a dank, roadless, city-less jungle, which lies east of the Pacific Andes, and sprawls between the two little nations. The territory, about the size of New York, is now divided by a temporary demarcation line, pending final settlement under U. S. direction...
...first National Exhibition of American Art, held two years ago, and sponsored by Mayor LaGuardia's New York Municipal Art Committee, flopped flat. Almost its only distinction was that it brought to Manhattan more canvases than any show that season. When the second opened last year with 526 pictures and statues, critics were agreeably surprised, found the general level of painting higher, a few pieces outstanding, their subjects of coast-to-coast diversity. Last week, in the spacious galleries of the Fine Arts Society, the third National Exhibition turned out to be the best...
Marriage Announced. Jon Hall (real name: Charles Locher, pronounced Lo-shay), 25, muscular, part-Tahitian cinemactor (Hurricane), second cousin of Hurricane's co-author James Norman Hall; to Frances Langford, 25, cinema singer (Palm Springs, Bom to Dance, Hollywood Hotel) who was a soprano until a tonsillectomy made her a contralto; in Prescott, Ariz.; secretly, fortnight...
Last winter when a syndicate of Hollywood bigwigs, headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., succeeded in getting permission to build a second racetrack in Los Angeles County (to operate during the summer), local businessmen suddenly went mum. They decided to wait until the community was saturated with year-round racing before attempting any organized crusade against...