Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fulminating against the U. S. in its role of watchdog. The conferees went off to Manila with their boss's judgment (coinciding with their own): if Japan takes the present war as an occasion to move in on French and British interests, the U. S. must do everything short of war to resist. If you live in a firetrap, Nelson Johnson might say, and the apartment of the two people across the hall catches fire, you don't go on reading that romantic novel; you get busy. Occidentals want to go on hearing the sweet music of trade...
...surplus. A special session might vote to spend the surplus, and more too, in relief bills. "If [Bricker] sits tight now," observed Columnist Raymond Clapper, "he can clean up this year with a surplus of perhaps $5,000,000 and offer himself as an economical administrator who would make short work of extravagance at Washington...
...lusty Senator Bridges' travels and speeches was to plug himself for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination. He hammered indiscriminately at the whole New Deal, showed himself to many a far-western Republican. Observing Mr. Bridges' progress with pride & prejudice were his two wealthy young angels: Edmund Converse, 32, short, blond, dynamic, whose grandfather founded the Bankers Trust Co. of New York; and tall, deliberate Palmer Beaudette, 26, whose grandfather once made Model-T bodies for Ford...
...last war, most of the sweep volunteers were fishermen, whose hard-boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are busy at home weaving nets for artillery camouflage. The special naval rank of "Skipper" is accorded their captains, and when they talk with His Majesty's officers they don't bother to salute, remove pipes or cigarets from mouths, or hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work...
Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...