Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Short time ago, the young M. P. privately questioned Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha about a deficiency of antiaircraft defenses. The War Secretary denied the charge, expressed doubt as to the accuracy of Mr. Sandys' information. Thereupon Sandys drew up a formal question to be asked in the House, as a courtesy submitted the question and his information to the little War Secretary in advance. Shocked was Mr. Hore-Belisha to find that the "information" had come from a secret document drawn up by a top-rank Air officer, which contained emergency directions showing the exact...
...that sickly, 64-year-old Speaker William Bankhead of the House of Representatives, could pass a rope-skipping examination; that suffering Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, would survive a pole-vaulting test; that Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley would fare well with the broad jump, or that bald, short House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could throw a discus very...
Some laid it to talk of dollar devaluation. Others thought it was foreign buying inspired by better news from Spain. Still others credited it to the beginning of new pump-priming. A few thought shorts were spurred to hasty covering by the Stock Exchange decision to publish precise figures of short interest in each stock. Inventors of explanations had full scope for their talents. For last week something hit the Stock Exchange with an elevating power like that of a volcano erupting beneath it. In the entire previous week only 1,700,000 shares had been traded, smallest full week...
Died. George James Short Broomhall, 82, British grain broker, international authority on wheat, founder and onetime editor of Liverpool's Corn Trade News; in Liverpool...
...selling work of nonfiction, two to one. Last month Lin Yutang's philosophic miscellany of Chinese wisdom, The Importance of Living, was the only book that sold equally well in New York City and San Francisco, in Chicago and Dallas, Tex. And although its total sale fell slightly short of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, it was head and shoulders above rivals in its own field, and the only work of non-fiction in the past season to sell on the scale of best-selling novels...