Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. General Severiano Martinez Anido, 76, "The White Terror," Minister for Public Order in Generalissimo Franco's Spain; in Valladolid (see p. 16). General Anido had been mentioned for the post of dictator if the Rebels should...
...plenty cold in Europe last week (see p. 10), but gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right-except that the change is too small to be detected except by instruments and statistics in the hands of professional meteorologists. Weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer...
...China slammed in its face by Japan, the U. S. Government has recently tried to jimmy the lock. Fortnight ago it lent China a $25,000,000 credit for purchases of U. S. goods. Last week it extended further credit against Chinese gold held in the U. S. (see p. 16). These gestures, called "dangerous, regrettable acts" in Tokyo, made Japanese and U. S. business interests seem more than ever at cross purposes last week. Yet there was one notable spot of conciliation in this warp & woof of imperialism: Wreathed in smiles, Japanese and U. S. cotton textile men renewed...
Exiled Novelist Thomas Mann gave his theory of Adolf Hitler's personality (see p. 11): "He is half genius, half criminal...
...when he returned to Harvard for a year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor, U. S. critics seethed to see him wince at Americanisms, to hear him admit he had little knowledge of U. S. poetry or interest in it. He gave reticent teas, at which young Harvard intellectuals silently watched the silent poet eat cake. Eliot seemed to enjoy flaunting his English ways: "I tend," said he, "to fall asleep in club armchairs, but I believe my brain works as well as ever, whatever that is, after I have...