Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the TIME-FORTUNE theory of war I presume the present Italo-Ethiopian tea party [TIME, Dec. 24 et scq.] is being fomented...
...Jumped to a conclusion that His Majesty's Government have decided to reject the vote-getting New Deal scheme of David Lloyd George to "spend Britain back to Prosperity" (TIME, Dec. 24) when Prime Minister Baldwin sharply condemned the present extravaganza of public works in "a very great country...
...Appellate Court was New York's Supreme Court order making Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, 11, a ward of the court, giving her to her mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, for weekends, Christmas and July, to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, for the rest of the year (TIME. Dec. 3 et ante). Though the opinion went out of its way to exonerate Mrs. Vanderbilt of her onetime maid's charge that she behaved indiscreetly with the Marchioness of Milford Haven, it pointedly concluded: "If the relator [Mrs. Vanderbilt] shall avail herself fully of her rights under the order, she will spend...
...cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. christened an eleven-car Merchandise Express did the U. S. develop a full-fledged catalog on wheels...
Such a picture is John Steuart Curry's famed Tornado (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Showing a frightened Kansas family with children and farm pets rushing for a cyclone cellar, it won the $1,000 second prize at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of 1933, was featured at the Chicago Century of Progress, has been widely reproduced. Last week Artist Curry's agents, the Ferargil Galleries, sold it to the Hackley Art Gallery of Muskegon, Mich...