Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portugal are in for much diplomatic unpleasantness from now on, but the Prime Minister also spoke in such a way as to hint that Britain and France will try to coax the colonial issue into much the same state of interminable negotiation as Nonintervention in Spain (TIME, Nov. 15 et ante). Off the record, nearly every British or Continental statesman will today admit that so-called Non-intervention has been a sorry process of seeing that Spain's civil war is dragged out as long as possible, thus avoiding a clean cut Rightist or Leftist victory. On the record...
Joseph Stalin went personally to Leningrad, supervised the grilling of Kirov's assassin, who was soon dead without a public trial, and ever since then the Dictator has been almost daily grilling and shooting prominent Russians, especially Communists (TIME, Oct. 18 et ante...
They succeeded only after the most desperate measures, including three blood transfusions (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936, et ante). Since then Statesman Titulescu has kept clear of Rumania while he convalesced. Last spring he was lunched in Paris by Socialist Premier Blum, who is now Vice Premier, and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Later, stopping at the Ritz in London, he had long talks with pro-French British bigwigs such as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Sir Robert Vansittart, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George. Last week, 5,000 Rumanians jampacked Bucharest's dingy railway station, flaunted banners reading "Long Live Titulescu...
...reformed the Cabinet of nonparty Economist Professor Paul van Zeeland (TIME, Nov. 1), expected by many last week to return as Premier after the courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante). In his program speech last week, Premier Janson promised to continue the van Zeeland policy of keeping down prices and therefore the cost of living. He promised to carry forward van Zeeland's extension of unemployment insurance, health insurance and old age pensions...
Cadman believes that native composers have not yet struck the common denominator which constitutes the true American musical idiom, sees U. S. composition as too much swept by passing fancies (jazz, Indian idioms, Negro spirituals, et al.), finds extreme modernism merely "an interesting experiment." Says he: "There must be melodic line. The appeal must be to the heart as well as the head...