Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Hoare, then Foreign Secretary, and by the bril liant professionals of the Foreign Office whose permanent head is Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart. In a few short weeks, by cooperating closely with the then French Premier, thick-lipped and unprepossessing Pierre Laval, they had produced "The Deal" (TIME, Dec. 16) ready for signing in Paris...
...telling the befuddled Stanley Baldwin what a dirty, dirty deal the whole thing really was. In an amazing House of Commons scene the Prime Minister, after trying to bluff "The Deal" through with the claim that if only his lips could be unsealed its virtues would be clear (TIME, Dec. 23), finally did a public reverse and spurned "The Deal." Promptly Sir Samuel Hoare insisted on resigning as Foreign Secretary and was succeeded by Mr. Anthony Eden, of whom the Prime Minister later said: "He enjoys my entire confidence and may remain Foreign Secretary for the next 20 years...
...first time in years was an active member of a Southern Baptist Convention. Full of talk about Socialism and Communism, Messenger Norris was loudest in announcing that he was going to spike plans to have a Fellowship Meeting addressed by Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Japanese Christian (TIME, Dec. 30 et seq.) whom Dr. Norris attempted to bait in Rochester, N. Y. last month. The Southern Baptists easily squelched the Texan. As a demonstration of Baptist solidarity - though neither convention discussed merging during their sessions - the Fellowship Meeting was presided over alternately by President James Henry Franklin of the Northern...
...have no time. The professional usually has his research program mapped out for months ahead of time. He is thus not likely to come across any unexpected phenomenon. It was a British amateur named J. P. M. Prentice who discovered Nova Herculis, the spectacular "new star" of 1934 (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). A British music-hall comedian named Will Hay was among the first to see the great white spot which erupted on the belly of Saturn three years ago (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). The orbit of Pluto was theoretically predicted by professionals, but that outermost planet was actually discovered...
...nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come to a boil, exploded. Two corpses had been found on a neighboring island. "The Empress of Floreana" and her No. 1 lover had disappeared (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Of the couple who had been the original settlers the man had mysteriously died. Last week U. S. readers could peruse the tale (ghosted) of the woman survivor whose narrative did not pretend to tell the whole truth but did present a connected, first-hand account of these Gala...