Word: conned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Postponed. Because Great Britain's Labor government is split on the question whether to experiment with an Empire tariff scheme (Scotland's MacDonald being pro and Yorkshire's Snowden con), the Prime Minister, in formally opening the Imperial Conference last week, weasled on its major economic problem, stressed "peace & disarmament" (the only field in which his cabinet has acquired kudos) and temporarily postponed proceedings by setting a future plenary conference session vaguely "some six or seven days hence...
...agonies of doubt as come only to those who are at once religious by nature and intellectually robust. But serenity returned when God came back stripped of obscurantist makeup. Harry Fosdick was graduated head of his class. Third Crisis was essentially physical, for never again was the Fosdick faith con founded. Dr. Fosdick's is not a brilliant mind : Dr. Fosdick achieves brilliance. No preacher can equal his combination of simplicity and polish. This he gets by working 10 to 14 hours at a sermon. As a student in Union Theological Seminary he worked 14 hours a day. Besides...
...years an author, a barrister and an educator have run a close race for Longest Paragraph in Who's Who. In 1928 Barrister Samuel Untermyer with his train of legal cases (viz., "successfully carried through the merger of the Utah Copper Co., with the Boston Consolidated and the Nev. Con. Cos., representing a market value of $100,000,000, for which was paid a lawyer's fee of $750,000;") held a narrow lead with 99 lines. Two thin lines behind, bolstered by 29 academic degrees and memberships in 86 associations, boards, clubs, colleges, congresses, leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator...
Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...
...Raylaine." From Asheville, N. C. last week came reports of a new material, a new company. The material is raylaine, a synthetic fibre made from rayon waste and other materials, more woolish than silkish. The company is Raylaine, Inc., headed by G. Jean Nord, longtime con- sulting engineer to textile mills...