Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Cabinet had just gone over his head in deciding to send Lord Halifax to Berlin to confer with Hitler, (see p. 22), rushed back to London in the state of overexcitement which has put him to bed several times before at tense moments (TIME, April 15, 1935, et seq.), announced he had "gone to bed with a chill." Viscount Halifax's departure for Berlin was speeded up by one day, and the New York Times learned that "humiliated" Mr. Eden had "tried to resign" and was "on the verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs...
Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opposed this, citing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia as an example of satisfactorily settling a dispute by armed force (TIME, May 18, 1936 et ante), and claimed that the words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis...
...this Scheme both sides in Spain were to receive recognition of their belligerent rights after the withdrawal of "substantial" numbers of the foreign volunteers now fighting with their troops (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.). "Please, gentlemen, proceed," Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky unexpectedly told the Non-intervention Committee last week. "We [the Soviet Union] will step aside and abstain from voting on the controversial portions of the British plan [the Scheme], giving our blessing to the rest of it. Thus the door is not bolted, it is open. . . . Proceed, gentlemen, proceed...
...Gaumont-British). To millions for whom the cinema is history's picture book, great figures like Alexander Hamilton, Disraeli, Voltaire, Rothschild. Richelieu et al. share one marked characteristic-an extraordinary resemblance to Actor George Arliss. Once even God looked something like him (The Man Who Played God). But whatever else he is supposed to represent, Actor Arliss is always his own suave self. He was never more so than in Dr. Syn. In the dual roles of an 18th century pirate and the kindly vicar of Dymchurch-under-the-wall, 69-year-old Actor Arliss takes a well-deserved...
...born on a farm in Nebraska), got the idea that not only experimental plants but commercial crops might be grown in water. So successful were his experiments that last summer the National Resources Committee listed "tray agriculture"-along with air conditioning, synthetic rubber, television, mechanical cotton pickers et al.- as one of the things that must be watched in the future development of the national economy...