Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler, terms in advance (see above). The "Father, of the House," an M.P. now for almost 50 years, thought Mr. Chamberlain's rejection a bit hasty. "I think it is very important," he said, "that we should not come to a too hurried conclusion." He did not want Great Britain to make any more enemies, particularly of Italy and Russia. He was even willing to keep an open mind about the possible impossibility of restoring Poland to the Polish Republic. The territory that Russia took from Poland "certainly is not Polish," Mr. Lloyd George said. He wanted whatever peace...
...Duce, he has performed the difficult feat of remaining neutral between those who want to stay neutral in the war and those who want to join Germany. Meanwhile, his power has noticeably waned. For one reason or another he handed over to the Prince of Piedmont the command of half the Italian Army. The pay of his own Fascist militiamen, who formed the regime's counter-revolutionary force, was suddenly reduced from eight lire (40?) a day to one lira, at the same time that the Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi...
...work, and announced that he was from now on going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give up a prosperous livelihood, and too many like Tommy Dorsey and Artic Shaw who are so busy looking for the big money they don't have time to relax in their music or their personal manner...
...merchant-navy man who was not bothered by all this was Maritime Commission Chairman-Admiral Emory Scott Land. On the chance that any time within the next two years Congress might want many more merchantmen than the U. S. now has, particularly merchantmen convertible into aircraft carriers and other handy things to have around in an emergency, Chairman-Admiral Land meant to have ships on hand. His answer to last week's shipbuilding jitters: to shovel out orders for seven ships more to the overworked yards which are currently building merchantmen...
...blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...