Word: adjust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Avco's stockholders, when they meet next week at Wilmington, will understand that the commissioning of Engineer Coburn does not signify sickness but progress in the corporation. He is not only to adjust but to amplify Avco's manufacturing. Plans include new giant seaplanes, a new line of motors...
...three-power treaty between Great Britain, Japan and the U. S. Legal experts were at work on rough drafts of this last week. The tenuous hope for a five-power treaty, to which Messrs. Stimson and MacDonald still clung, rested entirely on the ability of France and Italy to adjust their differences. Last week's efforts to achieve this produced nothing but a few bits of repartee. At a meeting of the naval experts, the French spokesman insisted that "all hulks capable of conversion into effective battlecraft, must be listed in arriving at a nation's requirements...
...Chicago philanthropist, financier (Sears, Roebuck & Co.), newlywed (to Mrs. Adelaide Rau Goodkind, his eldest son's mother-in-law), let it be known last week that he will award a prize of $10,000 to the person who best explains how "Judaism can, without impairing its integrity, best adjust itself to and influence modern life." Those who wish to compete must send their theories in the form of an essay (between 15,000 and 100,000 words) to the Julius Rosenwald Essay Contest, No. 71 W. 47th St., New York City. Included must be an outline and summary...
Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office in the top of the Invalides, he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles, tap the barometer on his office wall, then call as he sat down at his desk "Et maintenant, ou est mon Weygand?" Loyal, capable General Max Weygand, member of the superior War Council, was always there. Despite the fact that he had been Chief Assistant, almost a second son to Marshal Foch since the outbreak of the war, General Weygand never dreamed of sitting down in the marshal...