Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared last week in the flesh of Thomas Edmund Dewey, 36, who, unlike his counterparts in Hollywood and elsewhere, has as his chief asset not theatricality but thoroughness. Thoroughly for three years he went about smashing the prostitution, restaurant and poultry rackets of New York City (TIME, Aug. 15, et ante) while his files on the "numbers" or "policy" racket, most lucrative of all, slowly accumulated. And last week, when his big numbers racket case finally went to trial, there was only one defendant, the biggest single political boss remaining in Tammany's battered machine...
...office to Controller Robert C. White, Democrat, during the fall election period. Indignant, Mayor Wilson called off his vacation. When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week tied up until at least mid-September both a grand jury and a legislative investigation of Governor George Howard Earle (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante), the lively Governor took off with Mrs. Earle in a State-owned plane for a month's vacation in Central America. As a parting gesture he called on his Republican foe, District Attorney Carl B. Shelley of Dauphin County (Harrisburg), to arrest and try him instanter. Mr. Shelley...
Eleven years ago, Rev. Paul Schulte, a strapping, blond German priest of the Roman Catholic order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founded the Missionary Communications Association, to keep missionary outposts of the Church in touch with the world. Its motto : Obviam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ by land and sea and in the air"). Lately, Father Schulte, a crack pilot who wears his Roman collar under his flying togs, has been in northern Canada planning an aerial transport service for missionaries in the Arctic. In Churchill, Manitoba last week he learned that Bishop Armand Clabaut had received...
...Motion Picture Democratic Committee (Dashiell Hammett, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March, Melvyn Douglas, Donald Ogden Stewart et al.) telegraphed to Republican Governor Frank Merriam: "FOUR YEARS AGO WE . . . HAD TO CONTRIBUTE A DAY'S PAY TO YOUR CAMPAIGN FUND TO SAVE CALIFORNIA
Extravagant admirers of Britain's skittish Eric Linklater have not hesitated to compare him to Aristophanes. Author Linklater's picaresque, satirical novels (Juan in America, Magnus Merriman et al.) were full of bawdy humor and a blithe unconcern for English notions of propriety. But last week, when he published a new-fashioned novelist's version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, critics concluded that the Scot was no match for the Greek on his own ground...