Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary sat in the sun parlor of her home last week and wrote a note to the world. "My four kidnappers are probably the only people on earth who don't consider me an utter fool. You have your death penalty now - so - please give them a chance." Then she raised an automatic pistol to her head and pulled the trigger...
...hardy Swiss," the "resolute Turk," the freedom-loving Dutch, in fact all European neutrals, won eulogies last week from First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. He poured it out in a radio speech from London. But it was not all admiration for these brave peoples. Blunt Mr. Churchill, speaking with a back-throat lisp caused by a badly fitting upper plate, went on to say things that hitherto Great Britain has uttered only under her breath...
Nancy Langhorne Viscountess Astor is no prude but when onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha (see p. 27) recently introduced the practice of paying allowances to soldiers' mistresses, she objected violently. Her objection was overruled. Last week she rounded up a delegation to raise the matter again-before new War Secretary Oliver Stanley. Lady Astor objected that the practice was both bad morals and bad business. "I know a case," she said, "in which a woman is receiving dependent allowances from three men and is now living with a fourth...
...Last week the House of Commons got its first detailed report on the effects of these measures from Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross. Tall, fair-haired, direct, pleasant, incisive, 43, a merchant-banker and civil servant of the conservative Eton-Army-business pattern, Ronald Cross is considered one of the most promising of the Government's younger supporters. Politically brash, he nevertheless once thoughtfully sent flowers to an ill and defeated opponent. His present job is to see that the enemy gets no flowers until its funeral...
...coal. Germany may produce as much this year as in 1938-186 million tons, highest production since 1913-but coal is Germany's largest single export commodity, and what is left at home is mostly commandeered for industrial uses for the manufacture of synthetic gasoline and rubber. Last week Berlin was shivering in a desperate fuel shortage...