Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Anthony Eden that last week His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was still recuperating from a near-breakdown in the country. Therefore it was stolid hard-working Sir James Richard Stanhope, ;th Earl Stanhope, who dutifully opened his mouth for a large and bitter slice last week when the Montreux Conference resumed its deliberations in Switzerland...
Toughest job of Poland's cultivated soldier-aristocrats is to maintain a dictatorship based on the personality of the late great Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Excuse for the dictatorship is Poland's nightmare situation in European politics. Potent Germany on the west wants to take a slice of Poland's territory; potent Soviet Russia on the east wants to overthrow Poland's economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will...
...Connecticut, ringing doorbells for four months, asking housewives questions until they had 533 typewritten pages of data for their campaign. General Foods gave the young firm a terrific boost when it handed Salesman Benton six big food accounts on his birthday in 1932, still entrusts it with a handsome slice of its $10,000,000 annual advertising budget. One of Benton & Bowles's smartest stunts was to cash in on 1933 Repeal sentiment for Adolf Gobel, Inc. (frankfurters). Tired of writing about food, food, food, B. & B. called up 200 women in Manhattan, found only seven in favor...
...spiderweb charts in support of the theory that U. S. industry is banker-dominated, a possible starting point might be No. 2 Wall Street, home of Manhattan's First National, the "Baker Bank." A list of the late, famed George Fisher Baker's directorships included a choice slice of U. S. industry. Since the old banker died in 1931 at the age of 91 the Baker seats have been filled by George Fisher Baker Jr., now 58. As tight-lipped as his father, Banker Baker has offered no explanation for his recent resignations from the boards of General...
VILLAGE CHRONICLE-James McConnaughey-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A slice of life in a Carolina college town, centering about the behavior of a young English instructor who rashly challenges the established color-line, backs down under the pressure of community ostracism and an ailing wife...