Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisis, that conditions would have been much worse. He lavished praise upon President Hoover for the "prompt and effective" steps he took last November to minimize the effects of the stockmarket crash by holding a series of White House conferences on public works, wages, employment (TIME, Nov. 25, et seq.). Declared Statesman Stimson: "As a result of this the ship of business was held steady. . . . That was intelligent, carefully planned leadership. ... It prevented the immediate panic which threatened...
...French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot in L'Ere Nouvelle last week. Proposing an economic federation of European states to resist Soviet "dumping" and U. S. "imperialism," he flayed his successful French political rival M. Briand for proposing a mere piddling political "United States of Europe" (TIME. Sept. 22 et ante). He concluded: "Poor Europe which is short sighted and refuses to unite! Stupid Europe which does not hear the crackings of its obsolete construction...
...Quirinal. But, "man of iron" though he is, the new secretary general's head is comparatively clear. He will scarcely make such a mistake as the Fascist murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti in 1924?the crime which nearly wrecked Il Duce's regime. (TIME, June 23, 1924 et...
Children seldom care whether a story is old or new. They do not concern selves with such portentous events as operatic premieres. It was the them-grown-ups last week who appeared most impressed by the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (A Naughty Boy's Dream), also written for children and given on a double bill with Hansel und Gretel. They were importantly aware that Ravel is considered the foremost contemporary French composer. Some had heard him two years ago with the San Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely...
Authoress Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1928) with her tril- ogy, Kristin Lavransdatter. She was the third Norwegian to win it. (Others: Bjornstjerne Bjornson, 1903; Knut Hamsun, 1920.) A convert to Roman Catholicism, she was decorated "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by Pope Pius XI. She has also written Jenny...