Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain, having last summer invoked the "escalator clause" of the London Treaty allowing her to build above the 35,000-ton limit, plans to start work on the Lion and the Temeraire early in 1939. Both will be "about 40,000 tons" and will mount an undisclosed number of 16-inch guns. These are in addition to five 35,000 tonners already on British ways which will match the heavier Japanese battleships in speed...
...Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin planned to start work on his next picture (an all-talkie), first in three years, before January 15. Chaplin wrote the story, will act two parts, one his famed tramp. Title: The Dictator. In Germany, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt charged that Chaplin had been "commissioned" to make the film by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes (see p. 5), as "propaganda against a State with which the United States is at peace...
...opinions then and I'll express them again! The blood of my people has been shed in three American wars that America might be a free country and I sure as hell will carry on that tradition. Three people came to me and told me not to start a newspaper. I wondered why! Now, I know why! "It is dangerous for your reputation," one said. I say to hell with a reputation (what is a reputation?) when a person can't open his mouth...
Playing for time, Missouri waited for official word from the Court, refused to say what it would do with Lloyd Gaines, now a clerk in the Michigan civil service. Best guess was that the Legislature would start a law course at Lincoln University...
Chief hope of the Loyalists when the Big Push gets under way is to start a diverting counterthrust at some inactive section of the front. So far this maneuver has always stopped Franco sooner or later because he has never had enough men to fight in two big areas at the same time...