Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed-shirt, he leans toward the liberal side on economic questions, is familiar with (and discourses ably on) a wide range of modern economic thought. Last week accompanied by Mrs. Bailie (a professional landscape architect, daughter of Lawyer Henderson) their three children and French poodle, Jasper, he arranged to move from his duplex apartment on Park Avenue to a house in Washington. ("Now," said Mr. Bailie, "Jasper will have...
Nazis charge that the fire was set by Communists as the symbol of and signal for a nation-wide Communist revolt. Not the slightest proof of this ever materialized, the Nazis themselves assuming all power instead and using the Reichstag fire as an excuse for Chancellor Hitler's repressive acts (TIME, March 13 et seq.). Last week amid Firebug van der Lubbe's passionate protest, Judge Bunger suspended the trial for half an hour and the Dutchman was led below. When brought back into court he again seemed stupefied as in the past but suddenly began to writhe...
...dictatorship of the proletariat.'' since Russia's dictatorship is quite as much a one-man affair as Italy's. Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini are the infinities at which the extremes of dictatorship meet. Next to Russia. Italy has the nearest thing to a nation-wide planned economic system, the Mussolini "Corporative State" (TIME, Nov. 20 et ante). In the Rome of the Caesars Communist Litvinoff will be welcomed and understood, but Italians were ready to bet their black shirts that Atheist Litvinoff will not be received in the Rome of the Church...
...Crusaders--an anti-prohibition organization of nation-wide strength--there is no evidence that it is inspired by the financial interests...
...roots and began to make his own. Young British officers took them to war by the thousands. Before long the Dunhill pipe with its round white spot on the stem was thoroughly internationalized. On this amazing bit of word-of-mouth advertising Alfred Dunhill began to build a world-wide pipe business. Today there are Dunhill agencies in 57 lands from Trinidad to Zanzibar. There is a Dunhill pipe factory in London, a cigar factory in Glasgow, a Dunhill shop in Paris, a Dunhill shop in Manhattan, which was backed by another but not so exclusive tobacconist. David A. Schulte...