Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been gathered, a try for a knockout before U. S. production should begin to give Britain the edge over Germany. Also it was punishment (the Germans said) for British audacity in bombing Munich last fortnight while Adolf Hitler was there, and for disturbing Russian Premier Molotov's visit with bombs upon Danzig and Berlin, and for again plastering the Krupp works at Essen. The only mystery was why, if the Germans could thus destroy a small city at will, they had not long ago destroyed Britain's industrial towns one by one. Perhaps they lacked the resources...
...press: the interview was supposed to be off the record; Reporter Lyons' story "creates a different impression entirely than I would want to set forth." Moaned the U. S.'s Ambassador to the Court of St. James's: "Mr. Lyons made no notes during the visit. . . . Many of [his statements] were inaccurate...
...none too cooperative tactics so far-not by diplomatic pressure or concessions, but by keeping her fleet intact.In one of his occasionally brilliant analyses of the war, U. S. Pundit Walter Lippmann last week outlined his view of the relationship between British seapower and Comrade Molotov's visit...
...doing a serious opera in animovie style. As early as 1929 he raided the high-brow symphonic repertory to make Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre into a Silly Symphony. But the idea did not really sprout until early in 1938, when Leopold Stokowski, on a visit to Hollywood, begged Disney to let him conduct the music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a Mickey Mouse short. Disney didn't know what he was letting himself...
...Redefer (TIME, Oct. 31, 1938). He proposed as the schools' No. 1 job a crusade to make the nation's children appreciate their land by seeing it firsthand. His plan: let pupils get part of their education in work camps (like CCC) instead of classrooms, let them visit and labor in fields and factories. Said Mr. Redefer...