Word: cols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Confirmed the President's promotions of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles to Under Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Walton Moore to the resurrected post of Counselor of the State Department (see col...
Fortnight ago, when Merrill flew the Atlantic both ways (TIME, May 17 & 24), Colonel John Monroe Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aeronautics, remarked that he disliked such "stunt flights." Last week, three days before the anniversary of Lindbergh's flight, Col. Johnson announced that the U. S. would not permit the anniversary race. Said he: "We are trying to encourage transatlantic flying, but we don't want to jeopardize it. ... The Commerce Department is charged with the duty of safety in the air and this race is a highly hazardous undertaking. There will...
...Wrote Col. Lindbergh to his friend, Banker Thomas W. Lamont, who made the principal speech at a banquet in Manhattan on the anniversary: "I am embarrassed to think of you being asked to devote your time and energy to preparing a speech for the anniversary of my flight to Paris. I believe that the past should not be turned into an obligation for the future; and ceremonies for celebrating past events almost invariably become an obligation for those taking part in them...
...four loyal Prime Ministers had just been gratified by the first Coronation ceremony (see col. 3) in history which featured separate oaths by the King for each Dominion. And King George had received them all at Buckingham Palace with equal deference (see cut). Colleague Baldwin was now anxious to capitalize that equality by letting them share his biggest headache: Britain's $7,500,000,000 bill for Rearmament...
...Calvin Coolidge's pastor in Washington, and was brought to San Francisco in 1933 by a potent Californian, onetime Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Methodist Lowther is tall, hawk-faced, spare, a liberal and a pacifist. Congregationalist Pierce is plump, jolly, a Wartime chaplain (see col. 2), American Legionary and 100% Republican. While Dr. Lowther was struggling to make a go of his hotel-church. Dr. Pierce, who said he "never liked a church without a problem," was engaged in increasing attendance at First Congregational Church, which had slipped during Depression despite the fact that...