Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine sieve of this technicality might hold diplomatic eau de cologne, but what British Labor smelled slopping over was yet another British Conservative deal like that Sir Samuel Hoare attempted with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935), only this time a deal on Spain, not Ethiopia. Nevertheless the Labor Party last week put up feeble resistance in the House of Commons, which upheld the Government's course...
...Franklin, published the best colonial almanac. A Dedham physician and inn-keeper, Ames distributed his first issue in 1725. His publication became the most popular of its kind in New England and reached the then enormous circulation of 60,000. His calendar included such bits of wit as this: "Dec. 7-10. 'Ladies take heed, Lay down your fans, And handle well, Your warming paus...
...London the newsweekly Cavalcade, which has fattened its circulation by specializing in Windsor news ever since the early days of the abdication crisis (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et ante), announced results of a "nationwide" straw vote in which Cavalcade got subjects of King George VI to ballot on: 1) "Which foreign nation do you like best?" and 2) "Should the Duke and Duchess of Windsor be invited to return to England to live?" Result: 37% preferred the U. S., 28% France and 15% Germany; 61% were for inviting the Windsors back to England. This survey was made last July (Edward...
...accordance with this last scheme, Chairman Taylor four years ago hired young Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., a vice president of General Motors, made him vice-chairman of the all important U. S. Steel finance committee, succeeding a man twice his age (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). Since then it has been generally expected that Ed Stettinius would be Myron Taylor's successor as chairman of the board of directors. Last week, announcing that next April he would step down from the chairmanship, Myron Taylor made good this expectation...
After lying in a fitful stupor for five years, seven months, twelve days,* Chicago's long publicized victim of sleeping sickness, Patricia Maguire (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935, et ante), died last week. In a trice pathologists of Northwestern University medical school took out: 1) her lungs, to verify the pneumonia which was the immediate cause of her death; 2) an ovary to examine the tumor which mysteriously developed a few weeks ago, caused her to waste away, reduced her resistance to the pneumonia; and 3) her strange, ineffective brain. Then she was buried with a fresh corsage of gardenias...