Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past few years of empty dinner pails, and scrawny profits have produced what many observers beleve to be a significantly novel popular psychology. Business men as a group have begun to realize that unregulated monopoly and labor exploitation are phenomena which must belong to a dead age if democratic institutions are to continue. In the light of this insight, they have voluntarily submitted to stringent regulation be governmental agencies. Wall Street has accepted the SEC; The I.C.C. dominates the field of railroads with the approval of big business. Such are isolated examples of a new spirit among capitalist leaders which...
Oldest Episcopal church in California is San Francisco's Trinity, to which the State's wealthiest pioneer families used to belong. With changing times, Trinity was left stranded in a district of middle-class apartment houses. But with some old parishioners remaining, the old church still maintains an air of conservative respectability. For more than a year Trinity has been looking for a rector. Its vestry scrutinized the qualifications of 60 Episcopal ministers in 16 states. Finally, last August, the vestry issued its call-to a young man who is an enrolled Socialist, a vice president of Consumers...
...hard to believe that France by her recalcitrant attitude is sticking a veritable dagger into the back of the League of Nations of whom she herself has been for so many years the protector and godmother. To point out the glory which will belong to Geneva if the African war is curtailed would be redundant. To say that insincere action on her part during the current crisis is suicide is a truth which Europe gloomily faces...
...most typical manner. The canvas had not been shown in either the Goya centennial exhibition in Spain, or in the great Goya loan show in Manhattan last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). It was not reproduced in any of the standard works on Spanish painters. To whom did it belong? Where did it come from...
Such a country, declared Baron Aloisi, is unfit to belong to the League of Nations. Next day, on telephonic orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italian delegates began a melodramatic routine of jumping up and marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next...