Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chuffing. Day before this crass politician had been considerably surprised when his subordinate in Rome, deft and subtle Ambassador de Chambrun, managed to achieve a fairly satisfactory agreement with German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell as to post-plebiscite procedure in the Saar, if it votes to rejoin Germany (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week M. Laval was due for another surprise...
...that subject since he became President. News queries at Washington on naval policy are commonly referred to grey and graceful little Norman Hezekiah Davis, who served President Hoover as disarmament Ambassador-at-Large, continues so to serve President Roosevelt. In London at the deadlocked Naval Parley (TIME, Dec. 3), it was Ambassador Davis' privilege last week to tell the world just where, in the President's opinion, Japan gets...
...purge," they at least were accused of plotting with that plug-ugly pederast Captain Ernst Roehm (TIME, July 9). Last week Josef Stalin resorted to more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev's act should...
...calendar which Pope Gregory XIII gave the world in 1582, only two have any great current following. The International Fixed Calendar League, one of the hobbies of the late George Eastman, is for a year of 13 months with 28 days each, plus an extra holiday every Dec. 29 and a Leap Day on June 29 in Leap Years. The World Calendar Association favors a twelve month year with equal quarters in which the first, fourth, seventh and tenth months would have 31 days, the rest 30 days, plus a Year-End Day and a Leap-Year...
...turn had housed the International Live Stock Exposition also went up in flames (TIME, May 28). Would the Exposition be held this December? Union Stock Yards' testy old Board Chairman Frederick Henry Prince, whose interest in animals was materially increased when he bought heavily into Armour & Co. (TIME, Dec. 25 1933). answered "by cable from Paris: EXPOSITION MUST TAKE PLACE ON SCHEDULE. At once his trusted Union Stock Yards President Arthur George Leonard, a founder of the Exposition, went to work to build a bigger, better fireproof edifice in six short months?a steel, brick & concrete modern-Gothic structure, three...