Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Premier Benito Mussolini is an omnivorous newspaper reader, French journalism was thus last week doing the Spanish Leftists the worst possible disservice, for this week II Duce was able to hurl at the French Popular Front Cabinet of Léon Blum threats that unless France stop such shipments of munitions, Italy will take measures of intervention far beyond any she has yet taken. Declared Informazione Diplomatica, the most highly authoritative newsorgan controlled by the Italian Government: "Such intervention would have unpredictable and certainly very grave repercussions and might compromise peace on the European Continent...
...Finance Minister, Socialist Premier Blum was uneasily aware that he is the worst possible choice, from the viewpoint of those French and British capitalists from whom France must try to keep on borrowing at the rate of over 30,000,000,000 francs per year, to keep her armament program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric...
...David Lloyd George contributed to the sensation by leaving for the south of France, vowing: "The British Empire and France have been maneuvered into the worst possible strategic position. . . ." Much was made of the fact that also in the south of France last week were Lord Baldwin, his original protégé, Mr. Eden, and his pet aversion, Winston Churchill. It was suggested in the Leftist press that this galaxy of big British names might suddenly join with "the Hore-Belisha Young Turks" and it was said that Hore-Belisha had given Neville Chamberlain a "48-hour ultimatum...
...Springfield, Mass., a local, conservative painter named Henry J. P. Billings* sent a strangely affecting picture, Opus No. 1. It was accepted. Artist Billings promptly got some publicity by resigning from the League. His explanation: Opus No. 1 was the result of a deliberate attempt to paint the worst picture, in drawing, design, color and technique, that his ingenuity could devise. "Juries," said Joker Billings, "should be selected who have background enough to distinguish good from bad in modern...
...Badge of Courage, without ever having seen a battle, Richard Wright has written the most powerful stories of lynch violence in U. S. literature without ever having seen a lynching. (He did, however, spend most of his first 17 years in Mississippi, which in all the U.S. has the worst record for lynchings: 591 out of 5,112 recorded since...