Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last turned. As always before choosing a new Premier, the Emperor immediately got in touch with 88-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (elder statesmen) who advised the late great Emperor Meiji. The ancient Prince had the very man groomed for such an emergency - dapper 45-year-old Prince Fumimaro Konoye, president of the House of Peers, an independent, nonparty aristocrat who was nominated for Premier three years ago while he was in New York taking the temperature of the U. S. about naval disarmament. He was then prevented from accepting by Prince Saionji because the time...
...yelling fans clustered around the 2½-mi. brick oval did not get the ultimate thrill. Death took a holiday. Of 33 starters, 14 dropped out with motor trouble, only one had real trouble-a crash which knocked out both driver and mechanic. First to finish was dapper little Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis, who set a new record for the race by averaging 113.58 m.p.h. Only 20 yd. behind was Ralph Hepburn of Los Angeles in the car which Louis Meyer drove to victory last year. Third was Ted Horn, also of Los Angeles. To winner Shaw went some...
...last week President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Summer Welles for Under Secretary, of Robert Walton Moore for Counselor, of the State Department. Next day both came back confirmed. Thus did Secretary of State Hull escape from a quandary, for Sumner Welles, a dapper, twice-married 44, and "Judge" Moore, a hardheaded, bachelor 78, both Assistant Secretaries, had virtually deadlocked in their claims for promotion. Mr. Welles, an expert on Latin American affairs, a career diplomat of 22 years' standing, had set his heart on becoming Under Secretary. "Judge" Moore (whose title was conferred upon...
Perhaps in the hope of getting some Good Neighborly advice, dapper Getulio Vargas last week announced that he was soon going to return the visit his friend Franklin Roosevelt paid him in Rio de Janeiro last year...
...grey-haired Jew whom Mayor LaGuardia picked to be New York's Commissioner of Licenses when he turned Tammany out of City Hall three years ago. Since the power to license is the power to reform, Commissioner Moss, who is as notable for his integrity as for his dapper dress, lost no time suppressing shortweight ice dealers, market racketeers, dirty magazine publishers...