Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister of Public Welfare David A. Croll, one of the Dionne Quintuplets' three official guardians, announced that their father, Oliva Dionne, had asked the Provincial Government for permission to open a hot dog & soda water booth opposite his daughters' nursery in Callander, Ont. (TIME, July 20 et ante). Said Minister Croll: "He is going to operate a stand and we are going to see to it that he has the necessary electric energy for refrigeration...
...Labor's crisis had been precipitated, though not caused by the action of John Lewis and his Committee in going over the heads of A. F. of L.'s Executive Council to begin an organization drive among the nation's historically unorganized steelworkers (TIME. July 13 et ante). Last week in as belligerent a statement as the soft, pious, conciliatory President of A. F. of L. ever permits himself to make, William Green declared: "A very serious, if not fatal mistake was made when [ the Committee for Industrial Organization] flouted the decision of the last convention...
...Japanese Press announced with indignation last week that the long fingers of Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, the German Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, have now dipped into China as well as into the Balkans (TIME, June 29 et seq.). The official Japanese Domei news agency put on its wires that China and Germany have just signed a trade pact with three clauses...
...Stephen Samuel Wise was not in Providence's Biltmore Hotel last week to hear himself elevated to the Zionist presidency. Zionist Wise was in London, conferring with famed Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann and members of the British Government on current Arab-Jewish strife in Palestine (TIME, July 6 et ante). From London Dr. Wise sent word of his gratification, added...
...introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that he was so full of his subject that he could write it in an hour if he could...