Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been kept there six months overtime and might have been there still but for the discoveries about other Bedford commitments-"frame-ups" by venal members of the police vice squad-which have lately added fresh disgrace to New York City's corruption-riddled judiciary (TIME, Dec. 29 et...
...lecturers, friends-of-the-President and other Washington soothsayers still struggled to interpret the Delphic Wickersham report in Washington on Prohibition (TIME, Feb. 2), public attention was fixed briefly last week on the world's only other Prohibited republic, Finland. Finland too is troubled with speakeasies, bootleggers, hijackers, et al. Finland too is faced with a Presidential election in the near future. Finland too has a growing groundswell of political Wetness. And not unnaturally, Finland too last week acquired a Wickersham Commission, officially a "committee of experts to investigate thoroughly the social conditions created by Prohibition and suggest necessary...
...must" recognize Russia. To the tail of this great argument last week Isvestia, official organ of the Communist Party, tied like a shiny new tin can the report on Communists in the U. S. of the U. S. Congressional committee chairmanned by Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. (TIME, June 2, et seq.). "For the Congressional committee," said Isvestia, "to oppose recognition of the Soviet Union and simultaneously to demand official United States investigation of labor conditions within the said union - that is literally a skyscraper of impudence ! We [Russians] are learning [under Stalin's five-year industrialization plan...
Back from Europe last week came tall, handsome Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, the able Manhattan lawyer who undertook to play daddy to the Cuban sugar industry by obtaining a production agreement among the sugar producers of all the world. Long and laborious have been his efforts (TIME, Aug. 18 et seq.). At a conference in Amsterdam he accomplished the difficult task of convincing the men who control the huge East Indian sugar crop. In Brussels he drew an agreement from the beet sugar growers of Europe although all were frightened by the bogey of "Russian dumping," a bogey which made cooperation...
...souls and a million-dollar equipment to Boston, where big Emma Redell of Baltimore sang Elsa in the opening performance of Lohengrin. To follow were The Jewels of the Madonna, Die Meistersinger, La Bohème and de Falla's ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde, Aïda, La Navar-raise and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Tannhäuser, Otello, Forrest's Camille, The Bartered Bride, Lucia di Lammermoor...