Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General usually wears, except on ceremonial occasions, a dark civilian suit. He does not mind the numerous luncheons and dinners he has to attend, likes to go out evenings, to hear opera and ancient music. If he stays home he reads. His library is stocked principally with philosophy, folklore, political and military history and treatises on his other old favorite: map making. He has few friends, but one of his best, oddly enough, is that other able professional, Marshal Pietro Badoglio of Italy. On his 55th birthday General Gamelin married. He and his wife, who is as neutral-toned...
...activities" which would hamstring the Roosevelt national political machine as well as take politics out of Relief (TIME, July 31). After their talk, Mr. Roosevelt, taking care not to imply that he would veto the act, ridiculed it as vague, unenforceable. Might a Federal employe affected by the bill attend a political rally? he asked. If his good friend were running for office, might that employe sit on the platform? Make a supporting speech? A voluntary contribution? In reply, Senator Hatch patiently reminded people (and the President) that all such questions are already answered by Civil Service regulations, whose language...
...anyone at the door. Heifetz' fiddle stirs in this embryonic cutpurse the will to resume his own studies on the violin. When the charitable music school which takes him in finds itself in an understandable financial jam, Heifetz is touched for a $5 bill, promises to attend the school's concert if he can. Although making him keep this amiable promise proves fully as difficult as it would be in real life, Heifetz does keep it, ends the picture in the musical blaze of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto...
Talk. In London, presumably to attend an international whaling conference, was Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Adolf Hitler's star traveling salesman. He had been to Spain in early summer, and last spring he had signed in Rumania a sensationally successful trade agreement which all but made Rumania an economic dependency of the Third Reich. Forty-four-year-old Dr. Wohlthat was a wanderlusty young man who sought his fortune in the U. S. and Mexico, married a German girl living in Philadelphia, was recalled to Germany in 1933 by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the German financial wizard who was then beginning...
...mother who permits her girl to attend such functions should demand ironclad protection. Girls from 15 to 25 were there. We had two in our party. Never would have I permitted either to have gone without constant watch. I knew what they were going to face! What a responsibility! What aches of mind...