Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fault of the League of Nations and still less of His Majesty's Government, but . . . if we were to act as some suggest and try to organize a new pattern of collective security against Germany by the present League powers we should be doing the very thing that would be not only on the long view destructive of the hope of winning Germany and other powers back to European cooperation, possibly in some new form, but also we should be doing something against which we have always worked, namely, the division of Europe into blocs formally ranged against...
...filed suit against his daughter, Marjorie Yvonne (Cinemactress Martha Raye), asked for $50 of her $2,500 a week salary. Maintaining that when his wife divorced him last year she promised that she or her daughter would foot his living expenses, Father Reed complained she had done no such thing. Said Cinemactress Raye: "All I'll say is that my heart isas big as my mouth...
Since the amount of money in circulation has been falling from week to week for five months and since there was no sudden upsurge of business last week, most financial commentators at once concluded that this could mean but one thing, a resumption of hoarding. But Federal Reserve officials pooh-poohed the idea. According to them, one week's rise is insufficient evidence and may be only an accident. More likely explanation, said they, was the fact that sales last week were momentarily stimulated by the approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which...
...contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought a hat, a dress, a pair of shoes, a new typewriter. Said Moberly's mayor: "It's the biggest thing that has happened to this town since the mine disaster...
When the late Charles Flandrau (Viva Mexico!) was a star Saturday Evening Post contributor 40 years ago, one thing mightily depressed him. That was the changes that took place in his stories when they appeared in print. If he gave one of his characters a highball, the drink became a glass of lemonade. In those days a Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post...