Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Count Ciano stands before Dictator Mussolini for high-pressure contact on world affairs, then goes directly home to dinner or to one of the dazzling Roman social functions Edda likes. As soon as Italy and Germany began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously. To him languages come easily and Italy's Foreign Minister was all set last week to converse with Dictator Adolf Hitler in the only language that statesman knows...
...expected would come about when the gentlemen of the Air Ministry recently maneuvered Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin into dismissing the only one of its civil servants with a practical grasp of Britain's colossal problems in air rearmament, Sir Christopher Bullock, Permanent Undersecretary of the Air Ministry (TIME, Aug. 17). Now that skilled and outspoken Sir Christopher is out of the way, silky Air Ministry civil servants have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering nature about this genteel idea, and last week Lord Nuffield blew...
...Chicago Tribune and its Carey Cassius Orr. The Tribune's famed, aging John Tinney McCutcheon finds Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's rabid anti-New Dealism distasteful, ventures no further into politics than an occasional (Continued on p. 16) jest on the disparity of straw votes (TIME, Aug. 3). Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt and Ruin. Other cartoonists consider Carey Orr an exponent of "brute force...
...Products Corp., which is currently advertising that all traces of onion may be quickly eliminated by a Zonite gargle, a process characterized as possible by Dr.Howard Wilcox Haggard and Chemist Leon A. Greenberg (TIME, July 1, 1935), as impossible by Drs. Marion Arthur Blankenhorn and Calvus Elton Richards (TIME, Aug...
...Radiorator Charles Edward Coughlin. The- loudest Catholic voice in the land had continued to belabor the U. S. President in spite of the quietus which Vatican Voices supposedly had attempted to clap on him through his easy-going superior, Detroit's Bishop Gallagher, at Rome last summer (TIME, Aug...