Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first to leave the secret huddle of statesmen that has been discussing Germany's future in Rome for three weeks (TIME, April 17 et seq.) was the smallest and youngest Premier in Europe, five-foot, 40-year-old Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. He took back to Vienna with him the assurance that Italy would back his Government to the limit providing it gave up any idea of political union with Germany. Italy carefully pointed out that such a union would reduce Austria to the status of a German State like Bavaria...
...British Press Sir John Cadman has still another name: the Petrol Diplomat. He cinched his title once again last week by ending amicably Britain's five-month squabble with the Persian Government over Anglo-Persian's oil leases (TIME, Dec. 12 et...
...centre of the group was that irrepressible jack-in-the-box, droop-whiskered General Ma Chan-shan. Bland General Ma was acclaimed "China's Hero" year and a half ago when he offered the only serious resistance to Japanese invasion of Manchuria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Immediately thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before the Japanese advance, then accepted a reputed bribe of $3,000,000 gold to be first War Minister of the independent Manchukuo...
...stranger to Soviet propaganda trials was the prosecutor. Stocky Andrey Y. Vyshinsky, decorated like a prize Percheron with the ribboned rosette of the Order of the Red Flag, served as presiding judge at another Soviet circus, the famed Shakhta Trial of five years ago (TIME, July 2, 1928 et seq.). But the presiding judge last week was not at all what foreign correspondents expected. Judge Vassily Ulrich, a chubby, baldish, moon-faced little fellow, was amiable, quite as eager to exchange quips with witnesses as any periwigged British magistrate...
...conviction of one Scottsboro (Ala.) Negro on the mortal charge of raping two white girls (TIME, April 17 et ante): indefinite postponement of the trial of the other six defendants; in Decatur, Ala. Grounds: alleged insults to Alabamans by Chief Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy...