Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Radioldster Lee De Forest, inventor 31 years ago of the audion radio tube which made long-range broadcasting possible, celebrated his 65th birthday by telling reporters how little he thinks of broadcasting, 1938 style: "I seldom tune in. . . . The programs, all swing and croon, are not only poor, but the interruptions for commercial announcements are maddening. . . . Isn't it sickening? It isn't at all as I imagined it would...
...Duchess of Roxburghe, a granddaughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. Dr. Dirksen: "I suppose you get your fine black eyes from your Scottish ancestry?" The Duchess: "No, Your Excellency, I think it must be my Jewish ancestry. One of my grandfathers was Baron Meyer de Rothschild...
...weaving, agriculture, sugar-making; chief instrument of education, the takli, a small spindle on which the student can spin yarn as he walks, talks, prays. As they learn these trades, India's school children will also learn history, geography, the three Rs. English will be taboo, for British de-Indianizing of the Indians, says Gandhi, is the nation's curse: "We are strangers in our own home. The vocabulary of our mother tongue is so pathetic that we finish our sentences by having recourse to English words...
...days later, Henry Wallace set out for Ste. Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., supposedly to detail a highly publicized wheat subsidy plan before an international agriculture conference. But the economists heard nothing the London Wheat Conference had not heard six weeks before: 1) to keep its "fair" share of the world agricultural business, the U. S. is prepared to take "aggressive action"; 2) the world would be a whole lot better if every nation had a crop-control program. Export subsidies Secretary Wallace blithely dismissed as a "type of economic warfare," which may be justified "in certain emergencies" under "exceptional...
...applied to the committee on admissions to have his seat transferred to his grandson, 22-year-old Henry Stebbins Noble. Fresh from Yale ('38), where he was a ranking economics scholar, a 150-pound oarsman, Henry Noble is a green clerk in the big odd-lot firm of De Coppet & Doremus, will act as one of their floor brokers. On his family record, he is the No. 1 candidate for president of the Stock Exchange during the Panic...