Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White Generalissimo Francisco Franco's "Silver Falcons of Death" last week swooped silently over Madrid and for the first time since Spain's civil war began the capital, with its refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, cowered and shuddered beneath the impact of live bombs. So sudden was this first attack that there was no time to sound air-raid warnings, and before thousands of pedestrians and motorists on the streets could be herded indoors, the skies were raining shrapnel. Over 125 were killed, including 70 children playing in the grounds of a schoolhouse. Three Bombs fell...
Runner-up for first prize, and a $500 prizewinner in the landscape division, was a photograph of a sunset behind mountainous thunderclouds submitted by Edmund P. Hogan of Meriden, Conn., an official of International Silver...
...almost irreparable damage done by the New Deal, the Yale News comes to the conclusion that "mistakes are better than inaction." Before President Roosevelt arrived America had no Farley, no Tugwell, no Passmaquoddy, no N.R.A., no Guffey Act, no A.A.A., no Silver Purchase Act, no boondoggling. We will take "inaction...
...have shown that public opinion is the most variable of elements, and a weathervane for President is the surest guarantee of disaster. It has been said that Roosevelt's policy is laudable. It should be examined. He partially sponsored, and then wrecked, the London Economic Conference. The administration's silver policy brought China to the brink of disatser. "The good neighbor" policy, for which the President holds himself solely responsible, was instituted in Hoover's administration when marines were withdrawn and a general pacific attitude in regard to South and Central America prevailed. And it was not so long...
Marta Abba chose the U. S. as one of the last theatrical worlds to conquer. Leaving the Milan Theatrical Academy in 1923, she was soon spotted by silver-whiskered Nobel Prizeman Luigi Pirandello, who gave her the lead in his Six Characters in Search of An Author. She has since done practically the whole library of the great theatrical metaphysician's plays, two of which are dedicated to her. In Europe and South America in the past decade Actress Abba's long, sensitive face, throaty voice and pleasantly awkward gestures have been seen in a repertoire ranging from...