Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German, keeps his fingers crossed, has a passport which makes him a subject of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Last week he mobilized his villagers, his gamekeepers, his servants and his toddling infants, all of whom gave the Nazi salute as Lord Runciman arrived in formal black jacket, wing collar and black bat tie. Herr Henlein turned up in brown tweed coat, grey flannel slacks and white shoes. Present was the German agent known as "Princess Steffi," who generally operates in London. There she has been hostess to Herr Henlein and to Adolf Hitler's personal agent, Captain Wiedemann (TIME...
...easy to send a crew of unemployed huskies down into a ditch. More puzzling problems to Harry Hopkins and his Works Progress Administration are unemployed bookkeepers, engineers, accountants. Last week from Washington came word of a unique white-collar project in Philadelphia, which Mr. Hopkins described as of literally unestimable value to the world's aerial and ocean navigators. The project: a complete set of Tables of Computed Altitude and Azimuth...
Taken over by WPA under Hydrographic Office sponsorship, the Tables last week employed some 250 white-collar Philadelphia Reliefers, headed by eight non-Relief supervisors, including six mathematicians. With a $195,000 appropriation, WPA figures its workers will make 9,000,000 separate computations (each value being computed twice independently and then checked), fill five more volumes of tables with an average 300 pages in each, turn the whole over to the Hydrographic Office for publication next year...
...Mary Immaculate, founded the Missionary Communications Association, to keep missionary outposts of the Church in touch with the world. Its motto : Obviam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ by land and sea and in the air"). Lately, Father Schulte, a crack pilot who wears his Roman collar under his flying togs, has been in northern Canada planning an aerial transport service for missionaries in the Arctic. In Churchill, Manitoba last week he learned that Bishop Armand Clabaut had received a radiogram from the Hudson's Bay Co., 1,200 miles north in Baffin Land: FATHER COCHARD SINCE...
Nippys (waitresses) in Lyons' Corner House on London's Oxford Street last week eyed their patrons carefully. If the customer was a day-to-day white-collar snack-snatcher, the nippy said, as usual: "Yes sir, your order please, sir." But if he was a bizarre, loosely clad foreigner, the nippy said: "Si Sinjoro, vian ordenon, mi petas, Sinjoro." In nearby University of London's University College, some 1,400 delegates of 40 nationalities were gathered in a Congress of the International Esperanto League, and Lyons Restaurants (the Childs chain of England) never miss a trick...