Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slight, grey-haired, slack-chinned General Ismet Inönü, right hand man and successor to the late, great Mustafa Kama! Atatürk, is peculiar among statesmen in that he is quite deaf. President Ismet Inönü, who in his soldiering days wanted to go on fighting the Greeks long after The Atatürk knew he had been whipped, is also quite fearless. Last week into the deaf ears of this master of the Dardanelles poured blandishments, at his stout heart were hurled threats, as Ambassador Franz von Papen sought to detach Turkey from...
...from nervous exhaustion induced by his labors for Bolivia's welfare, was the official explanation. No one came forward to suggest any darker explanation, but observers looked for a change in Bolivia's national direction with Colonel Busch gone. "Glory to President Busch! Long live Bolivia!" cried General Carlos Quintanilla, who, as Chief of Staff of the Army, took over as Provisional President and accepted Busch's Cabinet members' resignations, appointed new ministers...
...husband of a girl from New Haven, Conn, whom a Bolivian artist took home with him from Yale. Señor Foianini offered no theory other than nervous suicide about the dead Condor last week. But he was deeply sad, and in a great hurry to fly home before General Quintanilla and other Army men should reorient Busch's Bolivia...
...Cabinet met again this week, searched its soul, announced another decision: it would resign in a body. Man chosen by Emperor Hirohito to be successor to Premier Hiranuma was no fire-eater, no ambitious young officer, no strong man-but conservative Nobuyuki Abe. An old hobbyhorse of a retired general, he has had no spectacular fighting and political experience, but plenty of experience in behind-the-scenes talking. He was briefly Acting War Minister in 1928, was one of the seven generals who retired after the 1936 uprising of the Army's jingoists. His probable policy: a strong line...
...Times and the Daily News matched each other in excitement and general pessimism. Two days before the Russo-German trade treaty was announced, the Time's Herbert L. Matthews and Frederick T. Birchall cabled from Rome and London that war seemed almost certain. Both papers printed the story of the German submarine heading for Martinique, and the News went completely haywire by suggesting that the President send a couple of battleships to blow it out of the water. Next day the News apologized to its readers for getting too excited...