Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these events were shocking to nations which had defeated Germany on the battlefield only 20 years before, but nothing so terrified the world as the ruthless, methodical, Nazi-directed events which during late summer and early autumn threatened a world war over Czechoslovakia. When without loss of blood he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in Eastern Europe by getting a "hands-off" promise from powerful Britain (and later France), Adolf Hitler without doubt became 1938's Man of the Year...
...freedom?of press, speech, assembly?is a potential danger to its own security. In Fascist phraseology democracy is often coupled with Communism. The Fascist battle against freedom is often carried forward under the false slogan of "Down with Communism!" One of the chief German complaints against democratic Czechoslovakia last summer was that it was an "outpost of Communism...
Norman Nash's birth was hastened two months by the jolting of a train on which his mother traveled to the family's summer house in Maine. When he had grown up, his father, also a minister, was fond of saying: "He was born in a hurry and has been in a hurry ever since." Tall, lean and bounding with energy, Norman Nash was graduated from Harvard and Episcopal Theological School, studied at Cambridge in England, was a chaplain in the War and went back to teach at Episcopal for 19 years. Meanwhile he raised two daughters...
...recovery from 1933, commodities kept pace with business revival until the index hit 88.3 in April 1937 (v. 59.6 in 1933). Then, after Franklin Roosevelt remarked that certain prices were rising too fast, commodities hit the skids of Depression II. Since last summer when the industrial and financial tide turned again, commodities have kept right on sagging...
...Winkling is no excuse" was the astonishing accusation hurled by New York Supreme Court Justice William H. Black last summer against Bethlehem Steel's august Chairman Charles M. Schwab and a batch of lesser bigwigs. Mr. Schwab failed to recall what happened between 1927 and 1934 when the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which he once headed, lost $215,000 on an engineering index. Members sued to recover, and Justice Black found against Tycoon Schwab's "inconceivable ignorance" (TIME, June 20). Last week the Appellate Division delivered a decision, devoid of Justice Black's wit and invective...