Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most eminent caller was Ambassador to France ''Bill" Bullitt, one of the most trusted of his foreign emissaries. Unlike other Presidents, who frequently filled diplomatic posts to repay political debts to party fat-cats whom they were glad to have out of the way, Franklin Roosevelt has stationed two of his favored advisers, Joe Kennedy and Bill Bullitt, in important embassies abroad. Last week Mr. Kennedy in London advised Democracies and Dictators to learn to get on together in the same world...
Drawing students from 46 states, one territory and 10 foreign countries, the school has a total registration of 1,002, according to Assistant Dean George H. Lombard '33. It is the largest number since 1932 and 60 more than last year...
...modernist Führerhaus ("Leader's House") in which the Munich Conference was held (TIME, Oct. 10), Adolf Hitler last week received the new Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Dr. Frantisek Chvalkovsky, who officially assured the Führer that "Czechoslovakia will assume a loyal attitude toward Germany...
...were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time...
...Laughing Diplomat." This was at the Italian embassy in Berlin, in 1900, when Varè was 20. Young Varè took her at her word, laughed genially through his years of service in the Italian consulate in Vienna, as first secretary of the legation in Peking, in the foreign office in Rome, as delegate to the League of Nations, at the San Remo conference, in London, Luxemburg, Copenhagen, Berlin and on vacations in Venice. Lighthearted, sophisticated, well-bred, he laughed at the remarks of his German sweetheart, Lenchen, who was a good girl by her lights, which were occasionally...