Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President had selected a pair of ill-assorted guests: PW Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes and WP Administrator Harry Hopkins. Messrs. Ickes & Hopkins have for months been scrapping like a pair of tomcats over projects for which Federal relief money should or should not be spent (TIME, April 8, et seq.). As to why the President wanted these belligerents along on the section of his journey supposedly devoted to pure pleasure, observers offered a choice of three reasons: 1) the Presidential sense of humor will secretly be tickled by the spectacle of these two cooped up together on shipboard...
...King Vittorio Emanuele's cousin the Duke of Bergamo sailed this week for war service and the latter's brother the Duke of Pistoia volunteered. Meanwhile the Englishman to whom Ethiopia's Emperor granted a vast concession intended for "Standard Oil'' (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.) was lashed last week in a most unusual dispatch from London by the New York Times's leading correspondent, Frederick T. Birchall. Cabled...
After rebuffing President Roosevelt when he protested the recent Moscow congress of adult Communists of all nations (TIME, July 29 et seq.), Soviet leaders last week welcomed teen-age Communists of all nations to a similar junior Comintern Congress for fomenting the same old "World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
This same coal strike had been called five times, postponed five times since February (TIME, April 8, et seq.). Chief reason given for the postponements was that both sides were waiting for the passage of the Guffey Coal Bill to establish a "little NRA" in the soft coal industry, assure miners good wages and operators good prices. The Guffey Bill had been passed three weeks, and the National Bituminous Coal Commission and the Bituminous Coal Labor Board, which were to settle production and wage questions, had been appointed three days when the strike finally came off this week. When puzzled...
...Chicago, which opens Oct. 1, announced that it would have as a student Mrs. Ruth Walgreen Dart, daughter of Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who last spring loudly withdrew his niece, Lucille Norton, from the University called it a hotbed of Communism, precipitated a fruitless legislative investigation (TIME, April 22. et...