Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goats. As U. S. businessmen sat back to see how much they could believe of Saint Harry's epistle to the erstwhile Philistines (see p. 49), historians noted the emergence of a new flock of U. S. goats. These were lawyers, business and constitutional. Lawyers were given their turn as national goats-after Bankers, Businessmen, Tories and Publishers-by Harry Hopkins when he blamed them last week for adding to Business' uncertainty during the Reform period of the New Deal by their "shortsighted counsel"; again, when he chortled over how the utilities were finally told...
...favorite stage entertainments is Franz Lehar's light opera, The Merry Widow. Last week in Munich the Fuhrer decided that he would like The Merry Widow a little merrier. A telegram was sent to Cannes where lissome, long-limbed Marion Daniels was doing an acrobatic tap dance turn at the Casino. A special plane followed, rushed the blonde 19-year-old Californian to Munich's Gärtnerplatz Theatre where she gave a few new twists and taps to The Merry Widow's, Viennese waltzes...
Hungarian politics took a fantastic turn fortnight ago when anti-Semitic Premier Béla von Imrédy resigned, ostensibly because he had discovered that he was one-eighth Jewish, actually because he was too willing a Nazi stooge to suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round...
...seed-filled bolls open, the seeds, having no lint to hold them, fall out and are lost. Texas A. & M.'s next step, therefore, is to keep the bolls from opening by further crossbreeding. Since nonopening types of cotton already exist, the scientists believe they can soon turn the trick. Such a plant should be in great demand among smart cotton planters because: 1) instead of having to be ginned, it could be cheaply threshed and harvested like any small grain; 2) there would be no cotton fibre to swell the two-year glut already on hand...
Instead the Independents are known for an attitude of truculent reaction and their serious efforts turn to buffoonery, as in the distasteful handling of the recent Jewish-refugees-to-Palestine drive. Constructive political theory seems to be wanting in the organization and while youth may excuse the same vice which hampers their Republican fathers, there is not even evidence of a vigorous class bias to take the place of thought...