Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington society is dissected under a chapter entitled "Boiled Bosoms" with the Gann-Longworth and McLean-de Ligne feuds recounted (TIME, Dec. 15 et ante, May 13, 1929). Tittle-tattle: Bachelor Senator Tydings of Maryland playing "footie" with sedate ladies; Mrs. Trubee Davison, wife of the Assistant Secretary of War, smoking a pipe; Daisy Harriman trimming Senator Walsh's walrus-like mustache...
...sensational and trivial." Mark Sullivan has sunk into "a Republican propaganda medium." Clinton Wallace Gilbert "is one of the few nationally known Washington correspondents who has not compromised his personal or professional integrity, never fawned or groveled." The few other reporters who received praise-Messrs. Ross, Anderson, Pearson, Murphy et al.-are, by no great coincidence, members of the Georgetown Group...
...Alexander, the Dictator King who looks like a dentist, and his big-jowled Premier General Pera Zivkovitch assembled hurriedly at the summer palace last week. King Alexander, sober behind his glittering pince-nez, told them that his three-year Dictatorship was at an end (TIME, Jan. 14, 1929 et seq.). Before the Ministers had recovered from their astonishment. Minister of the Court Jevtitch stood up and read them Jugoslavia's new Constitution. This document was evolved by no convention. It is the handiwork of shrewd King Alexander himself. Points...
...average. Of all the wealth in the U. S. in 1921, 33% was owned by 1% of the population; 64% by 10%. Society treats the needy in these times as if they were "dependents, hangers-on, social liabilities." Solution: let their rights -health and unemployment insurance, maternity benefits, et al.-be given them. Let "the best minds" reconstruct our life "on sound religious principles." Let there be a "Christian motive of service...
...luggage walked across the gangplank of the Leviathan, Europe-bound. With the same proud little steps he had left the Hearst fold five days before. After the resignations of Col. William Franklin Knox from Hearst-papers' general managership and Editor Ray Long from Cosmopolitan Magazine (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.), Frank Earl Mason was the third major executive to leave the Hearst banner in eight months...