Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result was the present Franco-Soviet Pact, negotiated by Herriot, signed by Laval, upheld by Blum (TIME, May 13, 1935 et seq.). From the point of view of Comrade Stalin, it was appalling that Comrade Navachine, who had quietly resigned his Soviet bank directorship in Paris sometime ago, should have been scheduled one day last week to deliver a lecture that evening "Exposing the Moscow Trial...
...greatest advance made by either side since Madrid settled down to bloody siege (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) came last week when the defending Red Militia swarmed over the West Park in Madrid's northwest section, where the Whites had strongly entrenched themselves. This followed after three days of downpour had sent millions of gallons roaring down the Guadarrama and Manzanares Rivers, which overflowed into the White trenches. Gun carriages sank into seas of mud. Dripping wet and nipped by freezing cold, the White troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco withdrew to higher ground, surrendering the waterlogged region...
Continually badgered by progressive educators for its cautious, antique ways is the College Entrance Examination Board (TIME, Jan. 25 et ante). This organization, which tests the fitness of some 12,000 youngsters every year to enter high-ranking U. S. universities and colleges, is so crusty that its brownstone Manhattan headquarters does not list a telephone. Last week the Board's new Secretary. Columbia Mathematician George Walker Mullins, who succeeded 71-year-old Thomas Scott Fiske three months ago (TIME, Nov. 2), renovated his hoary service in two ways...
...them the Guild now has 5,300 first-rate newshawks carrying its card. A major Guild milestone was last week's announcement from the World-Telegram. It meant that, having lined up Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News) and William Randolph Hearst (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), the Guild was now doing business with the three most important publishers in the land...
...week, against a backdrop of grenadine velvet, the Bank of France staged its first meeting since Premier Blum enfranchised the Bank's 40,000 hitherto voteless stockholders. Sole control previously rested in the potent hands of the 200 largest shareholders-"the 200 Families of France" (TIME, May 18, et seq.). With a turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often was he interrupted...