Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There had been a slight rift when Benito Mussolini drew France, Britain and Germany into his Four-Power Pact (TIME, May 29, 1933, et seq.). This came to nothing but Poland, piqued at not having been invited into Il Duce's prospective club and suspicious of France for joining without her, smoldered with resentment. Warsaw was thus in receptive mood when Berlin proposed Adolf Hitler's most statesmanly idea thus far, namely, that the Polish Corridor question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly...
FROM THIS HILL LOOK DOWN?Elliott Merrick?Stephen Daye Press ($2). Sensitive, perceptive, accurate, slight, a picture of rural Vermont from the point of view of a city white-collar employe, broke and out of a job, who finds satisfaction by a return to the soil; a novel made up of short stories, by the author of True North...
...Johnson was recalled to the White House, closeted with the President for an hour. Coming out he met Mr. Richberg going in. He slapped his friend on the back and took him aside for a talk in whispers. Afterward the General bantered with newshawks: "We have had only a slight misunderstanding as to the timing of the new plan. . . . I'm going off for a vacation of two weeks and then I'm going up to Hyde Park and talk over the final reorganization. . . . That's all there's to it! Nothing serious...
...Rome the Dictator's bureau of vital statistics claimed that his "Battle of the Babies" has at last entered the winning phase, arresting Italy's declining population, producing a slight upturn. The population as of June was 42.424,873 against 42,007,916 in June 1933, with marriages up from 132,484 to 134,736 and births up from...
Front-page stories from Washington reported that NRA was about to be reorganized. They still had the jitters. Retail sales were good last week and even heavy industries showed a slight improvement. And still they had the jitters...