Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving historians to decide what if anything was accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches...
Georgi Dimitroff was the sensation of the Reichstag Fire Trial (TIME, Sept. 25, et seq.). With fiery Bulgar wit he conducted his own defense, taunted Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring into a jittering rage and finally forced State Prosecutor Werner to ask his acquittal...
...deputies appeared in the Chamber with their coats off and wearing black shirts. They met to deprive themselves of most of the Chamber's powers in economic matters and to confer those powers on the organs of Il Duce's famed "Corporative State" (TIME, Nov. 20, et seq.). This elaborate mechanism for integrating production, consumption, employment, profits, imports and exports is best able to function, Dictator Mussolini believes, on a rock-firm gold standard and eliminates all necessity for a managed currency...
...Supreme Court will have its hands more than full in reviewing the law in this class of decisions, and will doubtless return to its former rule of accepting administrative tribunals' findings of fact as final. Now, in lieu of this probability are the demands of Lord Hewart, James Beck, et alia, that administrative tribunals be kept under close scrutiny, both as to membership and as to decisions, entirely without merit? Victor H. Kramer...
...which swept Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week after the first-act curtain of Die Walküre. The singer was Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a tall, stately German making her Metropolitan debut with a name already important in Europe and Chicago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930 et seq.). Last week she was nervous. Her husband. Herr Otto Krause who left his insurance business in Vienna to hear the performance, knew it. The battered old doll which she kisses for luck each time she goes on stage trembled in her hands. But the audience saw no signs of uncertainty...