Word: fullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fabulous trade out of South China. Then the Japanese got a valve of their own farther up the pipe at Canton, and Hong Kong became a comparatively dead city. It is still one of the most beautiful ports in the world-its harbor is like a Wedgwood plate full of sugar buns-but it is now a negligible trade centre, and Britain plans to abandon it at the drop of a bomb...
...this point riot cars full of Schutzstaffeln (Hitler Elite Guards) took over. Rolling up to the university, they unlimbered machine guns, began to haul off "ringleaders." In dormitories, where many who had not turned out for the demonstration were still in their night clothes, some of the students hastily piled up barricades of tables, beds and chairs. Others fled into the night amid a, spray of Nazi machine-gun bullets. When the skirmish ended, scores of the wounded were carried off to Prague hospitals...
...breaking up through the war a number of artificial forms of organization and social tendencies which, if left undisturbed, would either destroy man or hinder the achievement of his full growth. A social worker is reported to have said before the war came that if, as she understood, the effect of a war would be to destroy half of London, including its slums, and scatter its population over the country, it might not be a wholly bad thing. . . . God is ... putting to us a searching question. Money can be found in any quantities to discharge shells gratis to the enemy...
Last Friday 18 directors of General Electric Co. marched solemnly into the green Directors' Room on the 48th floor of G.E.'s pink Manhattan skyscraper. They sat through the reading of the minutes. Then, white-haired, sparky G.E. President Gerard Swope rose to his full five feet four inches, read to the assembled directors a letter, while Board Chairman Owen D. Young puffed a pipe. Nobody was taken by surprise. The previous evening they had all had a quiet evening talking about it at the Metropolitan Club: after serving 17 years together, and reaching G.E.'s retirement...
There was soon some criticism of Banker Cummings. In his spare time he was Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Another full time job he held down (at $15,000) was as trustee of the bankrupt Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway. He was also a co-receiver for Chicago Railways Co. and director of half-a-dozen big U. S. corporations, among them the Maryland Casualty Co., then in debt to the RFC to the tune of $17,500,000. The late great Republican Senator James Couzens moved to investigate the ethics of Mr. Cummings' $90,000-plus...