Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks Mr. Bruce had been trying to persuade his Government to enter a "Big Four" wheat acreage restriction pact covering the U. S., Canada, Australia and Argentina (TIME, July 3 et seq.). Last week, fearing to lose personal prestige at home with Australians who have turned against the pact, Mr. Bruce further exploded: "Schemes of this character can be carried out only by Socialist, Fascist or Communist states and Australia certainly does not intend to become any of these...
...breach of promise verdict obtained by Emelia Tersini, London waitress, against colossal Primo Camera, and to Camera's ensuing petition in bankruptcy (TIME, April 10; et seq.): denial by the New York Supreme Court of Signorina Tersini's application to have a receiver appointed for the $16,000 earned by Camera when he won the heavyweight championship from Jack Sharkey (TIME, July 10). Champion Camera-who last week was picking up change by personal appearances in a Broadway vaudeville house-claimed he had paid his fight receipts to his manager Louis Soresi for a farm in Italy. Said...
...comic strips about Gump, Winkle, Tracy et al., plus the sports comment of Westbrook Pegler and medical advice by Dr. William A. Evans, have long been features of the Post. All are syndicated by the Chicago Tribune* which is published by Editrix Patterson's famed brother & cousin (Patterson & McCormick). When the Post went into receiver ship its contracts were considered void, and features were bought on a week-to-week basis. At that point alert Mrs. Patterson stepped in, got the Tribune Syndicate to make an exclusive contract with the Herald for the comics & features, beginning this week. While...
...Last year a blatant young editor named John Bowman Chapple managed to win the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator, partly by charging that President Frank and his faculty "pinks'' had made the university a hotbed of communism, atheism and free love (TIME, May 2, 1932 et seq.). Alarmist Chapple lost the election, but he had started a Red scare which last week resulted in a legislative investigation at Madison...
...Middle Flight TRY THE SKY-Francis Stuart-Macmillan ($2). Irishman Francis Stuart may never set the Liffey afire but it will not be for lack of trying. Author Compton Mackenzie (Sinister Street et al.), who writes a reverently admiring introduction to Try the Sky, thinks Stuart can do it. Says he: "I am proud to think that my name may be associated, be it in ever so humble a way, with a work of the most profound spiritual importance to the modern world. ... I suggest that Francis Stuart has a message for the modern world of infinitely greater importance than...