Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been interested in the book, How To Sing For Money, since it was in the manuscript stage. I thought your review (TIME, Oct. 9) a very keen analysis, but I wonder if it gave a slightly wrong impression of the function of the voice teacher today...
When the Red Army marched into Poland in late September many purists in international conduct thought that, since Britain had guaranteed Polish territorial integrity, in all logic Great Britain should immediately declare war against the U. S. S. R. Instead, pragmatic British statesmen quickly explained that the British Government's Polish guarantee applied only to German aggression and not to a Russian invasion. Winston Churchill even argued that what Comrade Stalin had done "was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia." And Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain indirectly approved of the First Lord's argument by conceding...
...House of Commons in his traditionally Conservative district, talked persuasively about how Britain could rearm not only on a "no profit and no loss" basis, but even without incurring any further interest-bearing public debt, for the Government, explained Candidate Stokes, could simply issue "interest-free money." Ipswich thought so well of all this that she sent her Gadfly to the House of Commons with a landslide majority in February...
...famed Volkswagon or "People's Car" has been collecting $2.00 per week from 180,000 German instalment buyers, promising they will all get delivery by 1942, but the People's Car Works may have been converted to make munitions. Thus far the Führer has not thought it worth-while to risk further overstraining of the German financial structure by trying to float a war loan...
...Kremlin few authentic anecdotes have been printed about mysterious, closelipped, Georgia-born Joseph Stalin. Last week able New York Times Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, nosing about the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) which have been taken under the Soviet Union's "protective" wing, picked up what he thought were some genuine ones that came out of Russia's recent Baltic negotiations...