Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afford to hold a general election, with its attendant publicity of the divisions of French political thought, while it was engaged in a "white war" with the Axis powers. Said Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, author of the French three-year economic plan which will also run until 1942: "Today ... on the threshold of the most perilous period of our history, I am sure that nobody would do anything to weaken France by dividing her. The bloodless war which is being forced on us, we can and must...
Since Italian Fascism is the personification of youth and Benito Mussolini is the embodiment of Fascism, one of the embarrassments of Italy today is that Il Duce is growing old. Last week Dictator Mussolini was 56, but unlike his German comrade, Adolf Hitler, whose birthdays are celebrated with more splendor each year, Il Duce preferred not to have his mentioned...
...Louise Cohen Stockwell) published four graduated textbooks called American English.* Main thesis of Mesdames Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell is that there are three kinds of American English, each acceptable in its place. They illustrated this concept by the following variations on the theme, "Mother is not feeling well today": 1) dignified American English for great occasions: "Mother is ill and has retired"; 2) sack-suit American English: "Mother is sick and has gone to bed"; 3) football-field American English: "Mother is on the blink...
...bankers have sweated trying to make the billions earn money. Stagnant business and stagnant real estate have reduced the wage that a banker's dollars can earn. To keep them from becoming unemployed he has had to hire more & more of them to the Government. Today all banks have 30% of their total deposits on "relief"-hired out to the Government at a bare subsistence wage...
...Palisades Amusement Park (Fort Lee, N. J.) police raided "The Human Slave Market," where men & women had been offering themselves in matrimony to the highest bidder. Each "slave" carried a placard (example: "Today's special-a law graduate with...