Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present two statements of U. S. policy, the first of which they feared might wreck the Conference then and there. It must be sold adroitly to French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet or he might walk out of the Conference. Mild Mr. Hull, feeling perhaps not equal to the job, chose as his Delegation's super salesmen James Middleton Cox and sleek, persuasive Manhattan banker-expert James P. Warburg. Salesmen Cox & Warburg took the Frenchman into an inner committee room, M. Bonnet protesting that since President Roosevelt was known to oppose dollar stabilization "the alternative is an orgy of inflation...
...unify and co-ordinate Germany's Protestant sects was a Rev. Dr. Ludwig Müller. army chaplain and leader of a Nazi organization known as the "German Christians." Despite arguments, pleas and threats, the sober, elderly delegates to the Landes-kirchen stubbornly refused to vote for him, chose as their leader patriarchal Rev. Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. known throughout Germany as "The Abbot of Bethel" for his management of Bethel Institute, famed charitable organization founded by his father...
...excessive tariffs, import quotas, exchange, etc. That 'etc.' is a very useful word. It is used when a person has exhausted his knowledge and information, and it is intended to convey the impression that those who use it know a great deal more-if only they chose to tell...
...Curtiss company's production of a compact fighting plane to be carried aboard Navy airships. Or any of several companies for perfection of a controllable-pitch propeller. Or the Department of Commerce for its network of radio beacons which was in complete daily use last year. The committee chose none of those but turned to Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore for its Army bomber which can streak at 200 m.p.h. with two tons of bombs in its big belly...
...school in the U. S. Ever since the days of Founder John Eliot, apostle to the Indians, for headmasters Roxbury Latin School has always picked New Englanders. Last week the Roxbury trustees took the breathless step of electing a Westerner to succeed their late Headmaster Daniel Varney Thompson. They chose George Norton Northrop, 52, Wisconsin-born English teacher, onetime headmaster of Manhattan's Brearley School, and headmaster of Chicago's comparatively upstart Latin School (founded 1888) until he resigned last February because of financial troubles (TIME, Feb. 13). The appointment of Headmaster Northrop, urbane and unprofessorial, was pleasing...