Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre was injected into the hearings by Actress Helen Hayes. Divesting herself of the majesty which for three years she has worn in Victoria Regina, she threw herself into the role of plain "Mrs. Charles MacArthur," mother of two."* She recalled her grandmother's stories about eight brothers & sisters around the family dinner table. "I remember that there was always room for one more. There is always room for one more†ones who have no room elsewhere." Mother MacArthur clinched her argument by saying she would gladly adopt a child sight unseen,† if assured...
Nothing like their European models, Britain's 13 dictators were perfect examples of traditional British public servants. The majority have titles. Eight went to Oxford or Cambridge, one to Edinburgh, two into the Army and Navy. One is an educator (Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), one a big businessman (John Boot, Lord Trent, head of the great Boots drugstore chain), one a diplomat (Sir Auckland Geddes, Ambassador to Washington, 1920-24), one a labor specialist (Harold Butler, former Director of the International Labor Office, Geneva). Five have had long Government experience, six saw active War duty...
...Sebastian Marshal Petain was kept in the diplomatic doghouse for eight days before being officially received by the Franco Government. The price of reception, moreover, the old Marshal was told, was the return of the interned Republican fleet from Bizerte, Tunisia, the French protectorate, where it had fled in the closing days of the war. On this point the French gave in and General Franco's sailors sailed away with the fleet without bothering to pay even port charges...
University of Tampa is a small institution, eight years old. Recently its president, John Harvey Sherman, was surprised to receive a visit from Baron Edgar von Spiegel, a World War submarine commander, now German consul general at New Orleans. Their conversation had not gone far before it appeared to Mr. Sherman that the Baron had come to make a highly dishonorable proposal: that the university establish a German professorship with Nazi money, the professor and textbooks to be chosen by the Baron. Mr. Sherman ordered the Baron to get out of his office before he called a sheriff...
...meeting in Memphis, and to the House Dies Committee. By last week, the affair had stirred up not only Tampa and Florida but the whole South, for Mr. Sherman was quoted as saying that Baron von Spiegel had boasted there were plenty of other universities (presumably in his jurisdiction-eight Southern States) who were not too proud to take German gold...