Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a vast difference in the conduct of international conferences that are determined on action and the usual gingerly debates of the League of Nations. Sea-potent Britain was obviously going to call this Conference's tunes and she had sent to Geneva her hot-tempered, obstinate Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden. The British plan he brought had already been approved by France, and in short order this week the other conferees sat down and signed it. It provided that "neutral shipping lanes," in general synonymous with the present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled...
...trying vainly to get a job in Stokowski's orchestra, Miss Durbin finds her way without pathetic bumbles through some pretty sentimental sequences. She collects an orchestra of 100 out-of-work musicians, friends of her father's, finally prevails on Stokowski himself (in person) to conduct her 100-man orchestra in a grand finale concert...
...favor of the C. I. O. and the Chicago group against it, but delegates from other sections did not seem to know what their constituencies wanted, let alone the rank & file of U. S. teachers. Agitation for a referendum appeared, and a motion was made that the executive council conduct a referendum on C. I. O. affiliation "no sooner than Feb. 1, 1938." It was passed by a vote...
...Fleishhacker was a little, button-eyed Frenchman named Etienne Lang, great-nephew of the late, great Parisian Banker David Cahn, who was sent from Paris to San Francisco in 1931 to look after the Anglo Bank interests of the Lazard family. Etienne Lang presently hired a private detective to conduct a secret investigation of Herbert Fleishhacker's affairs. On the basis of this investigation, Lang and his lawyer, a heavy-shouldered Los Angelean named Harold Morton, in 1933 brought suit against both Herbert Fleishhacker and the Anglo Bank in connection with the sale in 1915-17 of oil lands...
...President's 82-year-old mother was sightseeing in Italy. None of their routine activities, however, constituted the President's major family distraction of the week. This took place at Cannes, France, whose Mayor Pierre Nouveau almost created an international incident by his description of the conduct of 21-year-old John Roosevelt, the President's youngest son, at Cannes' "Battle of Flowers...