Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large Harvard men resent being propagandized more than anything else; they demand a two-sided presentation of thorny questions and willingness on the part of purveyors of information to let them make up their own minds. An application of this theory to tonight's affair should have been made. It would not have been difficult to add to the list of speakers a rebel sympathizer who would dwell upon the Fascist solution of the Spanish struggle. It might even have been possible to advance one more step and invite a detached observer whose particular interest centered upon the international complications...
...consulting a union book of strike rules, but there's nothing in the book about Fry or how to make Fry work." On the fifth day the baffled strikers decided to forget about their union, sat down with President Fry and worked out a settlement as a "family affair." Simultaneously this week a new rash of sit-downs erupted throughout the land, victims including Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies), Santa Monica, Calif.'s Douglas Aircraft Co., Groton, Conn.'s Electric Boat Co. and Crowell Publishing Co.'s printing plant at Springfield, Ohio...
...Earl of Derby, great & good friend of King George V & Queen Mary, not hitherto rated pro-German and in British Government circles one of the most influential aristocrats in the Kingdom. Derby took the course of advising British editors that his entertaining of von Ribbentrop was a "purely private affair" and that "any talk will be confidential." He expected the Kingdom's newsorgans to unite in keeping his hush-hush house party hushed but there are too many British Jews in journalism for that. Instantly news of the Ribbentrop-Derby "confidential talk" leaked into anti-Nazi quarters and next...
Since the Episcopal Theological School is not legally a part of the University, controversy has sprung up as to whether the $150,000 should pass to the Episcopal students at the Harvard Divinity School. Henry B. Washburn, Dean of the Theological School, expressed his ignorance of the entire affair, predicting difficulties in its settlement...
Franzi and Sisi's affair began like a fairy tale. Franz Joseph had been Austria's Emperor since he was 18. Now he was 23, and his managing mother Sophie thought it high time for him to marry. Sophie and her sister Ludovika, an ambitious German duchess, put their heads together, agreed that young Franz could do much worse than wed Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helen. In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone...