Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infinitely patient U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, President Roosevelt's representative at the Brussels Conference (TIME, Nov. 22 et ante), stood deserted last week by the chief delegates of Britain, France and Russia. They had returned to their capitals, leaving second-stringers at Brussels, and leaving Ambassador Davis to keep his temper while the windup of the conference gave the Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opportunity to say that Rome "has deemed this conference entirely superfluous from the very beginning and has had no reason since to change its mind...
...millions of workers who credited him with browbeating the Cabinet of Socialist Leon Blum into decreeing nationwide shorter hours, vacations with pay. After Socialist Blum was succeeded this year by middle-class Premier Camille Chautemps, who reined in the New Deal and announced an official "pause" (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante) the huge bulk of Labor's Jouhaux has been less impressive. He enormously inflated his importance last week by appearing in Moscow to negotiate a merger between the 23,000,000 trade unionists in the Soviet Union and the 17,000,000 members of the International Federation...
...immense influence on the composers of the early nineteen hundreds. Besides a picture of an incurable Bohemian, Biographer Thompson offers a systematic critical study of all of his compositions, from the slightest piano piece to L'Après-midi d'un Faune and Pelleas et Melisande...
...cats were always grey angoras, always named Line. His women were less uniform. To him the four most important were Mme Vasnier, wife of an aging friend, who brought him from adolescence to manhood; green-eyed Gabrielle Dupont, who lived with him while he worked on his opera, Pelleas et Melisande; Rosalie Texier (Wife No. 1), who had an unpleasant voice which finally got on his nerves; Emma Bardac (Wife No. 2), a singer with a pleasant voice who lived with him until his death...
...just babes in the woods," remarked Robert Ralph Young seven months ago when he and two other inconspicuous capitalists suddenly loomed as financial giants by buying control of Alleghany Corp., holding company for the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, May 3 et seq.). Since then a bitter autumn has swept bleakly through the financial forest. Last week it became known that the Babes in the Woods had also felt the chill wind. With no cocktails and canapes for the press such as accompanied the original Alleghany sale, it was revealed in a routine...