Word: ended
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that suggested that their great enterprise might be the Teapot Dome of the Roosevelt Administration (TIME, March 14). So last week the three TVA directors appeared in Washington for their long threatened showdown before Representatives, Senators, Capital correspondents and the President of the U. S. By week's end the TVA family row, like the Great Boyg which oppressed Ibsen's hero Peer Gynt, was beginning to seem a tantalizing something at once too big to ignore and too shapeless to grasp...
...along a 60-mile front, extending from Fuentes del Ebro southward to Montalban, recaptured Belchite and gained approximately 1,350 square miles of Leftist territory. Some 3,500 prisoners were taken, the Rightists announced, including 400 U. S. citizens of the Leftist Abraham Lincoln Battalion. At week's end one Rightist column was only about 45 miles from the Mediterranean. Should Franco's drive reach the sea, he will have split Leftist Spain into two parts...
...long do you think you are going to live?'' Shaw replied: "I cannot tell you the exact date of my death. . . . You must be content to know that as I am in my eighty-second year, my number is up, and the cremation furnace may make an end of me at any moment, to the great relief of many worthy persons...
...resulted in a hurried meeting of the Exchange governing committee. In open-mouthed horror, it heard the charges against Dick Whitney and then preferred the Exchange's most serious accusation - "conduct apparently contrary to just and equitable principles of trade." Next morning, well knowing it might mean the end of the Exchange's claim that it requires no added SEC supervision, President Gay grimly mounted the rostrum of the Exchange and suspended Richard Whitney & Co. for insolvency (TIME, March 14). Wall Street's first reaction was outright incredulity that "The Corner" had not bailed out its favorite...
Last week Edmund Wilson again demonstrated how consistently he thinks in critical terms. The demonstration: a collection of ten essays that range from an account of a Princeton week end to an introduction to Pushkin's poetry. Not a unified book like his Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers includes a slightly heavy discourse on verse technique, but to compensate for that it has more of the U. S. literary scene than Wilson's previous writing, and it contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James...