Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just above Italy's vulnerable northern plain, at his Cisalpine summer home in Santianna di Valdieri, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips found small King Vittorio Emmanuele III when he went to deliver Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt's peace appeal last week. Personally insignificant but institutionally of as great importance to Italians as George VI is to Britons, King Vittorio Emmanuele thanked Mr. Roosevelt for his idea, promised to convey it to his Government. He had not far to go. Northward on the same train with Mr. Phillips had traveled Son-in-Law Ciano, ostensibly just to get a Collar...
...International Settlement." The troops took no action. In Tientsin, the Japanese were washed out by the worst flood in the city's history. The Chinese gave the Japanese a setback on their own in Shansi Province, where the Japanese have been carrying on an unenthusiastic campaign all summer...
...Jerry Doyle produced a sketch of a swastika-shaped Stalin clutching hammer and sickle, with the caption: "Forward Marx!" and the Manchester Guardian got some fun of its own out of Das Schwarze Korps' cartoon poking fun at the staff talks in Moscow (see cut). Prepared all summer for this European crisis, the press was not caught napping as it had been in 1914. For six weeks the U. P. had been filling in weak spots in Europe, acting on the assumption that war would start in August or September. The A. P. had four times as many...
...sung by anti-Nazi Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Jew Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile's ears burn. When the recording was issued in Germany this summer, German Wagnerphiles' ears burned in vain for the parts recorded in pre-Anschluss Austria. They found they had to take their Walküre without their Sieglinde. Luckier U. S. Wagnerphiles, listening to the complete version, will find Sieglinde's warbling to be a cut above the record...
...Sperry netted a thumping $2,469,576 ($1.23 per share), up 12% from 1938's record first half, up 49% from the first half of 1936 when the armament boom began. Buttressed against wartime demands for working capital, it had $5,768,158 cash, 31% more than last summer...