Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States into the war. It is evident that it is impossible for the advocates of either policy to prove their case conclusively. . . . The best that Congress can hope to do now is to adopt that policy which, on a cool estimate of the probabilities as we know them today, seems the least likely to have consequences which will put us in a difficult and dangerous position later on." So wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann last week. Having done so, he proceeded to review the arguments on both sides of the question.* Herewith is an outline (after Lippmann) of the arguments...
...After Raymond Moley began to edit Today (now, with him, merged with Newsweek), he had a chat with Franklin Roosevelt. "Did I realize, I was asked, that when I made a speech or wrote an editorial I was quoted by the Republican press only because of the fact that I was formerly a member of his administration? It took a minute to answer that one as gently as I knew I must...
...What honest man in no matter what country in the world could still believe in the word of those who today declare themselves satisfied or peaceful, now that they are covered with blood? . . . When Mr. Hitler tells us today after destroying Poland that he asks for nothing more, when he declares he wants nothing from France and will respect her frontiers, every Frenchman knows he will not hesitate if he can destroy France as he destroyed Austria, as he destroyed Czecho-Slovakia, as he seeks to destroy Poland...
...cash went down, from 9-to-1 to 3-to-2. Not only food, but puppies, razor blades, coffins were offered in payment. A pig traded in the first year for a season ticket produced a litter the second year and started a profitable little sideline in hams. Today, as in the beginning, neither actors nor playwrights receive any cash. To such playwrights as Robert Sherwood, Noel Coward, Maxwell Anderson and Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw have gone hams for royalties. Shaw refused his, demanded spinach instead. Among dozens of productions, most unusual is a hillbilly version of Romeo and Juliet...
Little Sisters today maintain 307 old people's homes throughout the world. The 52 U. S. homes care for 50,000 oldsters-men & women over 60, of all faiths. Upon entering a home, inmates surrender their belongings, if any, to the order, thus become members of a "Little Family," call the superior "Good Mother." Many a home is now in a dither of pious excitement. With no regard for calendar dates, the Little Sisters have been celebrating their centenary. The mother house at St. Servan (which was a base hospital in World War I) celebrated in July, Brooklyn Little...