Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon afterward The Hague Conference made Philip Snowden a world figure (TIME, April 19, 1929, et seq.) and "the final settlement of Reparations on a business basis at The Hague" made it possible to sell 96 millions of Germany's obligation to the U. S. public in bonds enthusiastically subscribed above par. This year these so-called "Young Plan Bonds" (German Government 5½s) have sold as low as 24¼ but climbed little by little to 39 fortnight ago and to 49 last week...
...Received favorably from committee a bill by Oklahoma's Johnson for free distribution by the Red Cross and Veterans' organizations among the needy, of surplus government stocks of cloth, clothes, shoes, et...
Thus President Hoover, with an engineer's contempt for diplomatic mincing around the brush, called on the Geneva Conference last week to hurry up and do something to justify its long French name: La conference pour la limitation et la reduction des armements...
...best college tennis team in the U. S. had a fine chance to win the U. S. Intercollegiate championship. He, Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, No. 1 on the North Carolina team which this year and last won 45 matches in a row against Yale, Harvard, Navy, Army, N. Y. U., et al, played the defending champion, Keith Gledhill ot Stanford, in the semifinal. For two sets Grant kept Gledhill away from the net by passing him every time he tried to come up He let Gledhill win the third set but he was trying hard to win the fourth when Gledhill...
...them there should be staple fare, easy to look at as well as listen to. All the better if the impresario can jumble onto his stage spear-carriers, dancing girls, supernumeraries by the score. If possible, let there be animals! Could there be camels in Carmen? Elephants in Pelleas et Melisande? Hardly. Of all operatic staples, Aïda does best outdoors. Consequently, Aïda's familiar tunes ring sweetly every summer in many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more than 1,000 performers (including...