Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brave Firemen Sirs: Re: Your issue Feb. 22, Business &Finance- "Fireman's Fund," p. 83. San Francisco acquired its first paid Fire Department on Dec. 3, 1866 at which time the Volunteer Department ceased to exist after 16 years of service...
...that we have not made our position clear." On the Continent Mr. Eden's words were taken as a declaration no less ringing and personally sincere than he made when he honestly thought the United Kingdom would fight to save League prestige and the independence of Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935, et ante). At that time Prime Minister Baldwin earned his nickname "Old Sealed Lips," and recently No. 1 British Political Cartoonist Low merrily drew First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain resealing the Prime Minister...
...NKVD and correspondents, another for the Davies party to use at night and a diner in which all food was exclusively the quick-frozen U. S. product of Heiress Davies' company. Though they did take into Russia 25 refrigerators containing 2,000 pints of quick-frozen cream (TIME, Dec. 28), Ambassador Davies deprecates press references to the well-publicized Davies commissary. Says he: "The exaggerations give both Mrs. Davies and me a big laugh...
...real importance, set them definitely off from Russia's masses as Mr. & Mrs. Davies are set off in the U. S. by their wealth. By a joker in the new Soviet Constitution, "The Most Democratic In The World" as Democrat Stalin's propaganda calls it (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante), many property rights have been restored to Russia's "toiling masses"-and thus to the prosperous Big Red class which today owns so much, and can now, under the new Constitution, bequeath it by inheritance to sometimes pampered offspring.* Moscow correspondents report that the new top-class...
...second son be given as his first name "Albert." Victoria had tried to get the future King Edward VIII christened with Albert as his first name, and the future King George V had managed to tuck it in second, but after the way Queen Victoria had been annoyed on Dec. 14 it became impossible to resist her will and the baby became "Prince Albert," later "Prince Albert, Duke of York" (premature headlines even made him "King Albert" upon the abdication of Edward VIII). Since it happens that "Albert" is a name the English simply do not like...