Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against King Edward's marriage prior to his Coronation next spring boomed so heavily last week that Lloyd's quotation shortened from odds of 11-to-1 to 5-to-1. This sort of thing, in view of the recent Budget leak insurance scandal (TIME, May 4 et seq.), caused British eyebrows to up sharply with queries on whether there has been a marriage leak. Stoutly Lloyd's maintained that they thought there was no speculative position last week but only a rush to cover "legitimate trade risks...
Geneva observers, although mildly amazed, stirred with hope that from so paradoxical a situation something might come at last out of the late great Nobel Peaceman Aristide Briand's greatest vision: The United States of Europe (TIME, Sept. 16, 1929 et...
...Deal act to provoke widespread U. S. criticism was the abrupt cancellation by President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley in 1934 of every U. S. airmail contract because of alleged collusion. For two months the Army flew the mails, at a cost of 13 lives (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934 et seq.). When this fiasco forced the Government to back down, return the airmail to the commercial lines after ousting nearly 20 top men in the industry, all the airlines involved brought suits totaling some $15,000,000 against the Post Office Department. Last week the Government settled...
...rushed Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus at rumors that 85 patients, most of them U. S. citizens, languished unattended because the French hospital staff had caught the contagion of their country's "folded arms strikes" (TIME, June 8 et seq.). When Mr. Straus arrived he found all the French nurses and all the French cooks at their posts, but 60 scrubwomen, laundry workers and basement engineers, including one naturalized U. S. citizen, had locked themselves "on strike" in the basement. As headlines screeched in the Paris Herald, to the rescue planned to go the local American Legion, the American Women...
Horrified at the death of New Mexico's Bronson Cutting in an airplane crash (TIME, May 13, 1935), the Senate started an investigation of the Bureau of Air Commerce, heard its aids to flight safety called "dangerously inadequate" by many an authority (TIME, Feb. 24 et seg.). The best rebuttal of the Bureau was a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 transport pilots. Last week, a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee disregarded this defense, held the Bureau negligent in the Cutting crash, recommended a drastic overhaul of Bureau personnel...