Word: inspection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matter of Taste. The spry old Prime Minister began his own holiday by flying to inspect British troops in France, retorted to reporters who complained that the war is proving boresome: "It is a matter of taste. Personally, I would prefer to be bored rather than bombed...
...burst with pride at the latest achievement of laborious German scholarship, secretaries of the Berlin Foreign Office last week called in correspondents of all nations to inspect a 100,000-word White Book titled Documentary pre-History of War. Published simultaneously in twelve languages, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's rebuttal to Lord Halifax consists of 482 documents adduced to prove the complete war guiltlessness of Nazi Germany...
Event-of-the-week in the Western Theatre was the arrival in France, to inspect the B. E. F. and handshake his people's allies (as his father did in World War I), of Great Britain's George VI. His Majesty, who served with the R. A. F. in 1918 after shifting over from the Royal Navy, arrived in France by destroyer, accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, who has the title of B. E. F.'s chief liaison officer with rank of Major General. Length of the royal visit was not announced...
...half the States have them), county & city health authorities, a multitude of laws play the same game. In 30 cities out of 129 studied, State law demands that store and home milk prices be identical. Health authorities can and do limit the milk supply by refusing to license and inspect farmers who want to sell in the city...
Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...