Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia that "President Roosevelt as a private citizen has been a friend of the Soviet." The first public champagne toast to Mr. Roosevelt drunk by Soviet officials in Moscow was at a party organized by Radek to celebrate the appointment as U. S. Ambassador to Russia of William Christian Bullitt, now U. S. Ambassador to France. It was Journalist Radek who interviewed Mr. Bullitt in Moscow in 1932 and quoted him as saying: "In all the world stalks destruction...
...Atlanta last week the National Preaching Mission, currently touring the U. S. to awaken dozing Protestantism (TIME, Sept. 28), struck its first snag. The Atlanta Constitution had politely editorialized: "There should be earnest and full co-operation by the Christian people of Atlanta in the constructive and inspirational meetings to be held during the next four days." But the Atlanta ministers in charge of arranging these inspirational meetings did not cotton to the Federal Council of Churches' stipulation that at least one Negro be included among the speakers. Neither the protests of Preaching Missionaries nor remonstrance from the city...
Last March The New Republic carried a searching disquisition into automobile accidents, made no mention of drunken driving as a cause. For this omission it was soundly berated by that pious, prohibitionist magazine, The Christian Advocate. Three weeks ago The New Republic replied editorially: "The reason we did not mention it in our earlier discussion was that our article was confined to the major factors in the annual death toll, which is now running to about 38,000 annually, and we were not and are not aware that drunkenness is one of these factors. The Travelers Insurance Co. . . . while recognizing...
Thus ended the honeymoon-campaign tour of Democrat Ruth Bryan Owen, retired U. S. Minister to the Court of King Christian of Denmark and Captain Boerge Rohde of His Danish Majesty's Life Guards...
...Chiang Kaishek, with his usual good fortune, happened to be 750 miles away in Canton and so did not immediately have to do or say anything in rebuttal to the Japanese. "My God, my God - this is terrible!" cried Chinese officials, while Cabinet members piled into planes, flew to Christian Premier Chiang, persuaded him to fly with them back to Nanking, his Capital...