Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the TIME-FORTUNE theory of war I presume the present Italo-Ethiopian tea party [TIME, Dec. 24 et scq.] is being fomented...
...last week, due partly to army recruiting, partly to the boomlet's creation of more work and partly to spreading it thinner by introduction of the 40-hour week last October. The general price level, which II Duce has tried to force down (TIME, May 30, 1927 et seq.) has risen some 15%. Wages, more obedient to dictation, are down...
Freed by order of a New York Supreme Court from his marriage with Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, 20, was Clendenin Ryan Jr., 28, grandson of the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan (TIME, May 14, 1934 et ante). The annulment confirmed the referee's recommendation made after secret hearings on the grounds that the Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference...
...droning battle between the Presbyterian Church and the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, the score last week stood 1-to-1. The Church had won the first round by getting peppery Dr. J. Gresham Machen suspended (TIME, April 8 et ante). Round No. 2 involved Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr., member of the Chicago Presbytery, president of Wheaton College, who was haled before a judicial commission for failing to resign from the Independent Board. Last week, upon the commission's recommendation, the Chicago Presbytery dismissed the charge against Dr. Buswell because, according to Presbyterian law the indictment against...
...Rockefeller's Center has had great ructions with such modernist artists as Diego Rivera (TIME, May 22, 1933 et seq.). The classical Piccirillis are precisely after the Rockefeller heart...