Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerned, the Prime Minister last week made permanent his tentative appointment of Viscount Halifax as Foreign Secretary. As a peer, Halifax cannot enter the Commons, but Labor peers taunted Halifax in the House of Lords: "You are afraid of Italy." Asserting that Britain would win any war "as usual" he retorted: "I am not afraid of Italy or any other country...
German newspapers gave less than usual encouragement last week to Austrian Nazis, but many Austrians feared this as an ominous lull before a bloody storm. Men pointed out that Berlin was one of the last great German cities to go Nazi, that Austrian Nazis might conquer Austria from Graz, as Hitler conquered Germany from Munich. If the French would fight a German invasion of Austria, it is by no means certain they would invade Austria to suppress an uprising by Austrian Nazis. General Franco has not had to fight the French Army, and it is unlikely that Hitler would give...
...kinds, from Protestant uplifters to Catholic mendicant sisters. Organized last week was the Greater New York Fund, Inc. which, so far as business is concerned, will represent a community chest for 56 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and nonsectarian eleemosynary bodies. Supplementing private donations, which will be expected as usual, the business touch will come but once a year, in May. Goal this year...
...dinner of the Young Democratic Club of New York, where rumor says he has aims at being Governor, Franklin Roosevelt's trust-busting protege, Solicitor General-designee Robert Houghwout Jackson, spoke to Business in more conciliatory terms than usual: "The business man is not easily interested in distant reforms if he is showing losses from quarter to quarter. But the Government, whose first duty is to preserve the future of the nation, has to try to live, not from quarter to quarter, not even from decade to decade, but actually from generation to generation...
...meet was all Harvard generally, and all Willy Kendall specifically. Kendall, after capturing the 220, pulled his way to a magnificent 4:50.5 quarter that sliced nine seconds from Charlie Hutter's last year's Harvard record. Captain Hutter, with two sprint wins to his credit, performed ably as usual, while Rusty Greenhood's 116., 57 point victory in the dive was a tribute to his ability to come through under competition...