Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divide et Impera," reasoned the British, and told the Americans of the mysterious visit of a French emissary to London. "The French have betrayed their word," they whispered slyly, "They will get a separate peace, and you will get nothing." Dr. Franklin stroked his lace frill with bejeweled chubby fingers and pondered the possibilities of a separate peace. Le Comte de Vergennes toyed with the silver inkpot on his satinwood desk, and tried to fathom the strange actions of his friends the Americans. Even Dr. Franklin received him a bit stiffly, a bit coldly...
...fight, thus jeopardizing his national prestige, and affronting the Republican Progressives who helped shove his recovery program through Congress last spring. McKee's support would be drawn from the following of Fusion Candidate Fiorello La Guardia, scrappy little Progressive ex-Congressman, firm friend of Senators Norris, La Follette et al., as well as from disgruntled Democrats. In some quarters it was reported that the White House had been drawn into the New York Mayoral scrap because Postmaster General Jim Farley wants to become New York's Governor...
...grinding again President Roosevelt's quiet little Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis busied himself in London and in Paris last week with clearing up the "misunderstandings" created when the President, as Europeans think, "wrecked the World Economic Conference" by refusing to stabilize the dollar (TIME, July 10 et seq.). In London Mr. Davis called on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald who was still snorting over what he considered the President's omission to act in currency matters along the line privately agreed upon when Scot MacDonald visited the White House (TIME, May 8). If the Geneva Disarmament...
...named "Sleepless Hollow." His motorboat, which is very fast and makes terrifying turns when the owner is at the wheel, is called "The Four Hawaiians," but Mr. Cook has not mentioned the celebrated and inimitable Hawaiians on the stage since the Massie Case (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931 et seq.}. Majordomo at Lake Hopatcong is Ellis Rowlands, a Welsh ex-actor still shaken by his experience in the Black Watch during the War. It is Rowlands, wearing footman's livery, who meets you at the door when you go to see Mr. Cook. Rowlands takes your hat and coat...
Early last June a Michigan judge mounted his bench as a one-man grand jury to hear the history of the decline and fall of Detroit banking (TIME, Sept. 4 et ante). For three months the prosecutor deployed scores of witnesses across the stand. Last week Judge Harry B. Keidan declared the show over and handed down his findings: 1.) that there was no evidence of criminal action on the part of Detroit's bank officials; 2) that there was no evidence of "smart money" withdrawn prior to the St. Valentine's Day closing; and 3) "most powerfully...