Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the Daughters of the American Revolution recently denied the use of their Washington hall to Negro Singer Marian Anderson, and because of their consistently illiberal stand on political, economic and constitutional questions, we recommend that their name be changed to the Defenders of the American Reaction...
...Reich will pay for the products in barter marks, manufactured goods and recently acquired Czecho-Slovak arms (which Rumania will probably never be able to use and which Germany may later grab anyway...
...Favorite Balkan legend: Rumanian officers wear corsets, use cosmetics...
...work as follows: The Government will issue fiat money (paper without gold or silver backing) to pay the Heinkel works, say, for airplanes. Next year when Heinkel comes to pay corporation taxes, it pays not in cash but in the fiat certificates. Meanwhile Heinkel may, if it wishes, use the certificates to help pay for purchases of Duralumin, rivets, engine parts. In transactions other than tax payments certificates may never exceed 40% of the purchase price, the rest to be paid in cash. What the plan really comes down to is using future taxes for present needs...
...suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week of President and Mme Albert Lebrun ("Mr. and Mrs. Brown" to Londoners) as a fit occasion to talk matters over with British statesmen. M. le President and His Majesty King George VI also toasted each other's peoples heartily at a banquet at Buckingham Palace...