Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...
...settling South American disputes. Up to the day of signing it was not known how many states would sign with Argentina and Brazil. Paraguay's signature was taken to mean that she wants to stop fighting her everlasting war with Bolivia over the Gran Chaco (TIME, July 17 et ante). Bolivia's refusal to sign indicated her resolve to battle on under German General Hans Kundt. Because the League of Nations has not yet finished adjudicating the Leticia dispute between Peru and Colombia which brought those nations to war (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.) they refused to sign...
...volume autobiography, The Joy oj Living (Doubleday, Doran $7), which yields flashing glimpses of the important surgeons of the past half century. *No kin of Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey of San Francisco who still claims to be alleviating hopeless cancer with adrenal cortex extracts (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931 et ante...
Still on their horseshoe bench the six red-robed judges of Germany's Supreme Court heard more evidence last week against the five men accused of firing Berlin's Reichstag building (TIME, March 26, et seq.). Center of interest was still the dull-witted Dutch arson boy, Marinus van der Lubbe (only defendant to be kept manacled and in prison garb in the court room). Chief pain to the prosecution was still the pugnacious Bulgarian Communist Leader George Dimitroff...
...served nearly five years in the War, emerged with the rank of captain, the Croix de Guerre (won at Verdun), the Medaille de Leopold II. Twelve years ago he began to make regular visits to the U.S., has lectured at Columbia University, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State et al. Still a bachelor, on trips to Manhattan he stays at the Harvard Club...