Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin has had no Oberbürgermeister for the past five months, so long has it taken to liquidate the scandal of her last Lord Mayor, Gustav Boess, who resigned, although technically vindicated, after a trial for misconduct of Berlin's fiscal affairs (TIME, Oct. 20, et ante). As famous in Berlin as U. S. oil's "Little Black Bag" is the "Boess Fur Coat," "bought" by Frau Boess for a tenth part of its value from the Sklarek Brothers, rascally civic uniform contractors...
This subject (since the American Red Cross had refused succor [TIME, Dec. 10, 1928], and since the U. S. now has its own drought-hunger problems) has become taboo in despatches. Nevertheless 8,000,000 Chinese have starved to death in the present Great Famine (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.) and 1,000,000 more soon will starve to death, the China Famine Relief (Manhattan) estimates...
Into his shoes stepped a statesman even better known in the U. S., onetime Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki (pronounced wakatsky) who represented Japan at the London Naval Conference (TIME, May 5 et ante). As Prime Minister, as Leader, he will make few changes, carry...
Died. Joseph Bodine Terbell, 68, board chairman of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., director of Guaranty Trust Co., American Sugar Refining Co., et al.; in Manhattan...
...other crash cases the defense pleaded Act-of-God (TIME, March 30 et ante), summoned such expert witnesses as Frank Monroe Hawks, Bernt Balchen and Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones to testify that the company had taken reasonable care, that the pilot had done his best in an emergency. But for the plaintiffs Attorney Ernest P. Biro (his famed witness was Clarence Chamberlin) argued that the emergency was of Pilot Foote's own making: attempting to turn at low altitude after a motor...