Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happens that Belgium has a howling would-be-Hitler in the sleek person of Rexist Leader Léon Degrelle, who has been raking every kind of muck for months against Economist van Zeeland and finally made some of it stick (TIME, Sept. 13 et ante). But Belgians did not think this week that their King was taking a risk in stepping out of his country and away from his Government at such a crucial time. They felt that the Government was not so much being left behind as it was going abroad in the person of the King. Reason...
...Under his expert management as Premier the devaluation of the belga-made inevitable by the devaluation of the currencies of the Great Powers -was carried through with skill and success in sharp contrast to the awful bungling at Paris of the devaluation of the franc (TIME, Oct. 5, 1936, et...
...Flushing, L. I., barrel-chested La Verne (John Montague) Moore, recently acquitted of seven-year-old robbery charges (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante), played in his first public golf match, for a child welfare charity. Came 12,000 oglers who overran tees, fairways, greens, bags, players, so confounded Golfer Moore-Montague that on the sixth hole his approach shot landed on a spectator's pate. The foursome-including Babes Ruth and Didrikson-gave up at the 9th, with Montague 2 down to Ruth...
...month, which seemed to be enough since, save for his drinks of an evening, he was a man of modest habits. Last week Holy Trinity learned differently when Father Balaban got in trouble with the Law. It was not for the sort of offense-rape, shooting, embezzlement et al.-which lawbreaking parsons commonly commit. On the word of a U. S. Secret Service agent, Father Balaban was a counterfeiter, head of a ring which operatives had been watching for a year...
...History of Everyday Things in England and based on the theory that everyday things are more truly, permanently significant than extraordinary things, this book by a well-known director of historical pageants and historian for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. describes the furniture, clothes, houses, dishes, industries et al. of the U. S. Colonial period. Two more volumes are to come. Numerous illustrations and contemporary drawings...