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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even graver view was taken by the leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee: "We have witnessed a degeneration of the world, due to failure to deal with economic difficulties created by the [Versailles] Peace Treaties, and by failure to deal with force. . . . This is not the time for Four-Power Pacts and new alliances of Power and Politics. This is the time for a new Peace Conference-an All-in-All Peace Conference to which should be called America and Russia . . . Chamberlain has been duped...
...Versailles." Lord Halifax said the reason why Russia was not invited to Munich was that, if she had been, then neither Germany nor Italy would have attended. Concluded the tall, ascetic Viscount, who has a nationwide British reputation in Church circles for spirituality and moral leadership: "I have taken no decision which, on all the facts as I knew them, was not right...
...method of identifying the virus was simple: suspensions of brain tissue taken from fatal human cases were injected into the brains of young Swiss mice. Two days later the mice showed "ruffled fur, slowing of activity, alternating with convulsive twitchings," and other symptoms similar to those of equine encephalomyelitis...
Bull Fiddler. Koussevitzky has taken few of life's bumps. One good reason has been Natalya Konstantinovna Koussevitzkaya, his pleasant, portly, beak-nosed Russian wife. Koussevitzky is her career. Once a sculptress, she has not only spent the best part of her life smoothing out her husband's path; she also played an important part in putting him on the path in the first place...
...their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He had traveled 3,000 miles by plane, had tramped 155 miles on foot, had taken 2,860 strokes on 600 holes, had worn out two dozen pair of gloves, had not lost a ball. His lowest score was 77, his highest...