Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommy when home on leave can, for the first time, dine in the same restaurants as Army officers; and when Private Atkins goes back to his regiment he finds solicitous "personnel officers"-created by Hore-Belisha-who have no other duty than to watch over his personal welfare. In short the Army has been "vigorously democratized," and there was no question last week of canceling out these reforms when Neville Chamberlain quietly obtained the resignation of his War Secretary. At No. 10 Downing Street the Prime Minister told Mr. Hore-Belisha, "You will live in history." Gradual democratization not only...
...Walther Funk has been much laughed about in Germany as Economics Minister, much loved as a man. Germans call him "gentlest of all the Nazis," and consider him eminently tolerant, fairminded, honest. Short, fat as Santa Claus, just turning 50, he is the funniest after-dinner speaker in Berlin, and about the only Nazi bigwig who will give foreign newspapermen a straight answer...
...turned out much faster than 500-to 740-ton U-boats, and will require only 20 officers & men instead of 35 to 40. These new ships, said France, would be able to cruise only four or five days, but there will be a lot of them available for short raids into Allied waters...
...three shifts, putting in terse, readable paragraphs the input of some 7,500 correspondents located all over the world. The result, 50,000 words a day, goes out by teletype to some 250 radio stations from Manila to Mozambique, to 40-odd newspapers from Alaska to London, and over short-wave to ships at sea, including J. P. Morgan's Corsair whenever she puts out. Acclaimed in the radio business for accuracy, wariness and brevity, Transradio got wide kudos during the war-bulletin period for keeping its editorial head screwed on tight, broadcasting no scare heads...
Earl Hines has a good one in "Riff Medley" due to the short but swell plano solo. Look out for this week's Victor release of his "Rosetta" as a piano....On the same disc is a solo that he cut ten years ago for Victor that was never released. Ought to be worth listening to....Jimmy Lunceford's stuff has suffered lately from bad recording, his platter of "Liza" being a good example...