Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dallas meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Bishop James Cannon Jr. confounded his critics and won his church's forgiveness by confessing and emotionally repenting his stock gambling with a Manhattan "bucket shop" since exterminated by the law (TIME, June 16 et ante). Last fortnight Bishop Cannon confounded the Senate Lobby Committee, which sought to learn about his handling of political campaign funds, by challenging its legal authority, marching out of the hearing. Both victories were parliamentary cleverness. But last week Bishop Cannon suffered a reverse on his moral front. The Senate committee returned to the subject...
...looked like a Japanese admiral in the regalia of Lord Privy Seal. But towering Mr. Hartshorn should carry well the plumes. He was Postmaster General in the first MacDonald Cabinet of 1924, then became a member of Sir John Simon's India Commission (TiME, Jan. 30. 1928, et seq.) and has just become available for Cabinet rank. A giant from Glamorganshire and president of the South Wales Miners' Federation, he at least looks like just the champion to grapple with unemployment...
...have been a sinner but he died desperately poor. The expensive pageant in his honor was financed by an astute woman: Zita, widow of ill-starred Emperor Karl, mother of famed "Little Otto" who pretends to both the Imperial Austrian and the Royal Hungarian thrones (TIME, Feb. 23, 1925, et...
...Majesty well knows that King Carol knows that she helped to procure his exile, siding against him and with "her Disraeli" the late, great Prime Minister of Rumania Ion Bratianu (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926, et seg.). Naturally in Bucharest last week Ion's brother Vintila voted against proclamation of Carol as King (see above), but paradoxically Ion's son George Bratianu sided with Carol. After the vote George sought to call on his uncle Vintila who shouted wrathfully: "I am disgusted to see the son of Ion Bratianu acting as an errand boy for Carol. Get out of my house...
...Isles. Their advent was signalized by the formation of British & International Utilities, Ltd., a corporation designed to acquire stocks in leading utilities of the British Isles and the British Empire. Control of this company was shared by the Volpi-formed Compagnie Italo Belge pour Enterprises d'Electricité et d'Utilité Publique, commonly known as Cibe, and by Dawnay, Day & Co., Ltd., London merchant bankers. Count Volpi is chairman; Lord Barnby of Lloyds and the Earl of Westmoreland are among the great British names on the directorate...