Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then reached on three points: 1) The Disarmament Conference will not act on Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvinoffs proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work of the Conference shall proceed "without prejudice to private conversations on which the governments will desire to enter in order to facilitate the attainment of final success by the return of Germany to the Conference...
Turkey became the first firm ally of the Soviet Union and Jew Suritz crowned his work last autumn, when Dictator Kemal celebrated the tenth year of his republic. From Moscow an imposing delegation of Bolshevik bigwigs went to Ankara and. as a great exception to Dictator Stalin's ban on junketing, were permitted to take along their wives (TIME, Dec. 4). It was svelte Mme Suritz who turned the trick by having Paris gowns ready for the dowdy wives from Moscow and an expert modiste on hand to fit them. Under Dictator Kemal's critical eye, they shone...
...pipe and one of his wife's dogs. Tiny, popular Mrs. Dodds, daughter of a Nova Scotian wholesaler, likes to dance and sing. Dodd's Princeton, President Dodds has neither brought nor promised Princeton a New Deal. "I trust the alumni will pardon me," he wrote last autumn, "if at this time I propose no stirring platform of educational policy or radical reform. Princeton accepts as valid some of the current charges against American education and in a quiet and persistent manner she will continue to improve her methods.'' His only major changes thus far have...
...restaurant chefs. In 1927 while visiting John ("Yellow Cab") Hertz in Miami, Ernest Byfield liked the taste of a glass of tomato juice he was given. He immediately put his chefs at the Hotel Sherman to mixing tomato juice formulas. College Inn tomato juice cocktail appeared in the autumn of 1928. Prior to that there were at least three tomato juices on the market-two made by Indiana manufacturers, one by Welch. College Inn sold 60,000 cases the first season, chiefly by word of mouth, with little advertising...
...himself liked and thought he would make a good university president." The Regents swung around the country, interviewed some 50 educators, found none both suitable and willing to put his head in Washington's political beartrap. University of Chicago's Dean George Alan Works was interested last autumn until Governor Martin vetoed a bill to help take the University out of politics by forbidding the Governor to juggle the Board of Regents...