Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip to New York to mix a fresh brew of political news. Just before the Senate recessed for the holidays he introduced a resolution providing for a Senate investigation of the Colorado shale-oil charges leveled against the Department of the Interior by Ralph S. Kelley (TIME, Oct. 6 et seq.}. Last week he swiveled his aim back to Power when the new Federal Power Commission, as its first executive act, dismissed two of its prime employes...
...Commonwealth was saved from financial shipwreck last week when the $140,000,000 conversion loan; needed to straighten out tangled finances (TIME, Sept. 17, et ante), was oversubscribed by $8,750,000 by 117,000 subscribers. The treasury proudly announced that 103,000 subscribers had sent $95,000,000 in cash or checks. Said J. E. Fenton, Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Henry Scullin (on his way back from the Imperial Conference at London): "I am very hopeful that if we continue to pull together we will soon find come out of the black cloud of depression...
...lists, agreed unanimously on only three: Robert Tyre Jones's four-fold golf victories. The Columbus, Ohio, prison fire. The crash of the R-101. The finding of the bodies of Arctic Explorer Andree and his companions, which developed into something of a Hearst scoop (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), headed the list of Hearst's I. N. S. But A. P.'s honest Cooper also placed it at the top, risking the inference that the A. P. was beaten on the biggest story of the year. A year ago the birth of the Lindbergh baby might...
...through a Catholic marriage ceremony at Assisi, Italy. It poured that day. In thunder, lightning and rain they left Italy for Sofia. Storms lashed their ship all the way. At Sofia they went through another marriage ceremony according to Orthodox rite-with great pomp and publicity (TIME, Nov. 10 et ante...
...Protestantism in Mexico, harshly cried out last week by one of the Pope's subalterns, Indian-blooded Monsignor Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico. Monsignor Diaz was ejected from Mexico four years ago for pursuing his religious duties in ways which violated Mexican constitutional laws (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927 et...