Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the ancient code duello, the seconds in an affair of honor fight beside their principals. According to the modern version of the code, seconds must try to effect a reconciliation satisfying to the honor of all parties. In the political duel which began month ago before the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs over the honor of the Virgin Islands, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings followed the ancient code. They joined the combat in support of their respective principals, Virgin Islands Governor Paul M. Pearson, accused of maladministration, and Virgin...
Excerpts: "The only people getting rich out of this affair are the British, who are selling water; Arab sailors, who have brought their dhows [native sailboats] in clusters from all other Red Sea ports for use in unloading Italian vessels, and, ironically, the Ethiopians themselves, who keep on selling coffee to the Italians...
...that time the Diesel engine was a cumbersome, slow affair which weighed some 250 lb. per horsepower, had a top-speed of 500 r. p. m. But heavy or light, slow or fast, it was still the most efficient engine in the world. Mr. Cummins set about making the Diesel engine lighter, faster, kept an eye cocked on Europe and its Diesel-powered vehicles...
Members of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects held a quiet meeting last week to elect a successor to President Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker. There would have been nothing newsworthy about the affair but for the name of the new president: Hobart Brown Upjohn...
...Pops Concert on Monday night was a rather crowded affair, and the reason was that the forty year graduates and families were starting their celebration. Yesterday they all left their headquarters in the Hotel Vendome and drove to the home of Parker W. Whittemore '95, in West Gloucester for an afternoon of sports, while their wives attended a luncheon at the Oakley Country Club. Today the members of the Class and families will lunch, along with 1890, in Lowell House, and attend the festivities in the afternoon. The Algonquin Club in Boston will be the scene of their reunion dinner...