Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 1940 coming up Franklin Roosevelt has every reason to want to be undisputed master of the Democratic Party. For, unless he is master of the Party, he cannot be sure that the Democratic National Convention will nominate a man of whom he approves (whether himself or another). Several times this year Congress has challenged that mastery and last week it was challenged once too often...
...doubt that Adolf Hitler is determined to have Danzig this summer, preferably without war, but, if necessary, with war. Nor could there be any doubt last week that, as matters now stand, Poland would fight rather than give up the mouth of the Vistula. But the big question was whether Poland's allies, Britain and France, would also go to war. Despite a great Anglo-French outcry of resonant warnings that further aggression would be met "by force", the Nazis believed that when the showdown came Britain and France, as they did last summer over Czecho-Slovakia, would...
...while everybody last week was pledging France to defend Poland, nothing was said about defending Danzig. The Poles consider Danzig a part of Poland. But whether the French or British do remained last week a question mark...
Last week Dr. Israel tried to make up his mind whether it would be better to leave the 30-year-old lithopedian where it was or take it out. At latest reports he had not decided...
Newly signed by M-G-M for Maisie, Cinemactress Sothern shed the glad rags and phoney attitudes of her new-rich cinema past, became her North Dakota self. As Maisie, she is a healthier Jean Harlow, an untarnished Mae West. Whether she can keep her natural pewter shine is a question. Her next scheduled venture: How to Get Tough...