Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countries arrived importantly in Moscow last week for the first Congress of the Comintern in seven long years. Its constitution defines the Comintern as "a union of Communist parties of all countries into one proletarian party, which fights for the establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, for the creation of a World Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for the complete destruction of classes and the achievement of Socialism-that first stage of the Communist society." Since many of the 400 delegates are furtive persons, wanted by the police of their home countries, the Soviet State concealed their names from...
...peace societies continued to press President Roosevelt at least to invoke the Briand-Kellogg Pact formally, the White House lingers remained crossed last week. Famed State Department "Trouble Shooter" George Hanson who was dispatched to Addis Ababa last month with a book about Ethiopia called The Hell-Hole of Creation in his luggage (TIME, July 8), received countermanding orders last week when it was realized in Washington that his knowledge of Chinese dialects and experience in dealing with Chinese bandits might not be of great help in shooting Ethiopian trouble. Mr. Hanson was therefore ordered to Saloniki, Greece. To Addis...
Meanwhile the U. S. State Department's famed "Trouble Shooter," George Charles Hanson, sailed from Manhattan to become U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Ethiopia. As a bon voyage gift last week one of his friends gave him L. M. Nesbitt's book on Ethiopia called Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME. March 25). "This book," beamed Shooter Hanson, "whets my interest...
Frenchmen, when their Chamber and Senate decided to spend $53,000,000 to build Normandie, thought of her in terms of the 2½ million days of work she would give French unemployed, reckoned her advertising value as greater than that of any French creation since the Eiffel Tower was put up as a world wonder in 1889. Last week, however, Frenchmen, essentially thrifty, wanted to know what Normandie's operating profit is going to be, having long ago resigned themselves to the unlikelihood that she will earn satisfactory interest on the capital France has invested...
Still pink with pride over his giant Pan American Clipper (S-42), which lately flew the Pacific to Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...