Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Yugoslavia, where Italy would probably move first, discovered after 22 years that the Soviet Union existed as a State, began to dicker for mutual diplomatic relations, sent a large delegation to the Moscow mob to negotiate a commercial agreement following three months of secret conferring in "a third capital...
When Hungary went briefly Communist, in 1919, its dissonant Government put Bartók, Kodály and its third well-known composer, academic Ernst von Dohnányi, on musical pedestals. Enormously shy, Bartók lives in Budapest in extreme quiet with his wife and son. He has an almost inaudible voice, dislikes conversation, has one shy-rude trait. When addressed (in European manner) as maestro or maitre, he replies curtly: "My name is Mr. Bartók." Vigorously anti-Nazi, he will not allow his music, if he can help it, to be broadcast within earshot...
There are any number of things which can make publishing an immensely unprofitable business. One big one is to have the cost of paper rise (many a U. S. publisher felt the pinch when newsprint rose from $42.50 to $50 a ton in 1938). Another is curtailed advertising. A third, most dangerous in the long run, is losing the confidence of the public. Last week British publishers were squeezed in all three directions...
...Harriman Sands Rutherford Vanderbilt, 76, dowager socialite, daughter of Railroad Tycoon Oliver Harriman, follower of Cultist Oom the Omnipotent; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan. Her first husband, Sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands, was killed riding to hounds in 1889; her second, Racquet Champion Louis Morris Rutherford, died in 1892; her third, Yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt, died...
...themselves that the Keynes plan has a faint parallel in the U. S. Released were current figures on Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s own public thrift campaign: U. S. Savings Bonds. Voluntary and not for war, the Morgenthau "baby bonds" nevertheless permit the "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" third of the U. S. population to share a nation's deficit financing...