Word: et
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condemning it for giving space to World Peaceways advertisements, even the "HELLO SUCKER" ad which prompted that tinhorn outburst from the Legion's ballyhoo director. Rather, "good U. S. citizens stand . . . united" in applauding the timely courage and vision that has prompted World Peaceways, assisted by FORTUNE et al., to picture the stark horror of war and what it does to those who fall its victims...
...large, roving x quantity in bluff, pushing Francis William Rickett, the British promoter who wangled a huge concession from Haile Selassie for Standard Vacuum Oil and then, to an international chorus of "Shame! Shame!" was paid off and repudiated by the U. S. concern (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.). Dressy Mr. Rickett's importance survived last autumn's misadventure because his safe continued to be the repository for the concession for the subsoil rights to precisely the two-thirds of Ethiopia that Benito Mussolini wants. The contract gives Rickett five years in which to implement the deal with...
...syndicate which includes Manhattan's famed banking firm of Lehman Brothers and Milton Erlanger of Erlanger Mills (B. V. D.'s). They sent a small, vociferous textile man named George Fisher to Paris where he acquired U. S. rights from Socièté de Construction et d'Appareillage Scientifique pour le Tricotage et le Tissage, otherwise known as "Socast." U. S. sales plans are to be formulated this month...
Critics were thunderstruck to learn that the $500 Palmer Prize for marine painting went to one Hayley Lever of Caldwell, N.J. and not to that persistent and popular sea painter, Frederick Waugh (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Possibly the fact that Artist Waugh's entry entitled Ante Meridian (the one with the surf on the right) had already won one prize last December may have affected the judges...
...ratifying a "family settlement," a Baltimore court finally ended the lengthy squabble over the $28,000,000 Camel cigaret estate of Zachary Smith Reynolds, who was shot to death during a party at his Winston-Salem, N. C. home in 1932 (TIME, July 18, 1932 et seq.). To his wife of seven months, famed Torchsinger Libby Holman, whose indictment for his murder was not-prossed, the court gave $750,000. To their posthumous child, Christopher Smith Reynolds, 3, went approximately $7,000,000. To Anne Cannon Reynolds, 5, the dead tobacco heir's other child by a previous marriage...