Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What did Herr Adolf Hitler's Fascist flash-in-the-pan (TIME, Aug. 25, et seq.) cost Germany? This question Teuton economists answered last week with a tentative, staggering figure: 1,600,000,000 marks...
Last week Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh," sued Hearst's New York American for $500,000 because of a story concerning his Abyssinian adventures (TIME, Nov. 3 et seq.). In denial of the story Plaintiff Julian submitted: "That the plaintiff did not eat so much at his first meal that the Emperor ordered him driven out of the empire . . . [and] the Emperor of Abyssinia never placed [him] in manacles...
Coffey & Humber in San Francisco, for which Federal backing was sought by Hearstpapers and ambitious politicians (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.) is regarded by authorities as an example of the earnest but unfinished independent effort which should be drawn into large, securely financed carefully directed institutions. Professor Ewing thinks the U. S. is far from being properly mobilized for its cancer war. He wants mightier weapons than any now available - six cancer research institutions each endowed with $10,000,000. He would have them scattered across the country, fortresses whither crusaders might rally, whence they might sally...
...police department (TIME, Aug. 25, Dec. 29) to discover a parallel to Gogol's situation: A foppish pipsqueak from St. Petersburg, stranded penniless at a village inn, was mistaken for a tsarist inspector whose coming has been announced and for whom the rascally village officials-mayor, judge, postmaster, et al.-were ready with servile bribes. Facile young Romney Brent made an almost too convincing pipsqueak; pretty Dorothy Gish's part (her second off the screen) was only a small one-the naïve daughter of the braggart mayor and his cheap wife. The total effect...
...County Court of Common Pleas at Youngstown, Ohio, with a thoughtful frown on his face. Since April he had been studying the famed suit by which Cyrus Stephen Eaton attempted to fulfill his vow that "Youngstown Sheet and Tube will never merge with Bethlehem Steel Corp." (TIME, March 24 et...