Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shocked and grieved by the destruction of Catholic Poland, whose Primate, Augustus Cardinal Hlond, arrived at the Vatican during the week. The Pope was profoundly apprehensive of the future of eastern Poland, occupied by godless Russians. But, said a Vatican voice, "even if the Pope fasted and performed self-mortification, he would not be the man to flaunt it in public. One should keep in mind his habitual disposition to piety and mortification. . . . But beyond that, it is not permitted to go without falling into a play of the imagination that may become indiscreet...
Gorgeous Bachelor Girl Gail Allen (Madeleine Carroll) was doing just about as well bossing a Fifth Avenue department store as British Cinemactress Carroll is doing in U. S. pictures. Gail knew all the answers and none of them was masculine. But when cocksure Bill Burnett (self-consciously cute Fred MacMurray) blew in from Bali like a tropical monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending...
...base figures of American industrial production indicate that our facilities are fully adequate for probable war needs, and indeed that "there was ample unused capacity during the period 1920-35 to support a major war," Colonel Rutherford held. The United States is self-sufficient in most of the raw materials needed for munitions, and has begun to stock up on those whose importation might be stopped...
Among the few raw materials for munitions in which the United States is not self-sufficient are manganese, tin, rubber, tungsten, chromium, quinine, and others, Colonel Rutherford said. The estimates are that one year's national supply of certain strategic materials should be placed in reserve, and Congress has authorized spending $100,000,000 toward this end in the next four years...
Admission to the Open House will be by ticket, but all interested can receive these tickets by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Harvard College Open House, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge...