Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the story of his plight was published, letters and checks poured into his apartment. Peddler Washburne returned the checks with thanks, kept on selling his candies. Finally a Long Island candy manufacturer named Joseph B. Kaufman called to say that he wanted to buy Mr. Washburne's formula for "Vegecandies...
There the Big Three of last week, grim Aloisi, affable Laval and Britain's young Captain Anthony Eden, who vividly remembers the talking-to he recently received in Rome from Il Duce, sat around devising what the League calls a "formula." Every few hours Baron Aloisi would read the latest text by long distance telephone to Premier Mussolini and the Dictator would snort, ''Unacceptable...
...Unacceptable!" Then he grudgingly yielded. Around midnight the Big Three took time off to telephone Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, telling him as President of the Council to convene it next day. Somebody also telephoned Professor Jeze about 2 a. m. to come around and get the League formula. It provides that the totally deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian conciliation commission shall again discuss whether Italians or Ethiopians fired the first shots of the Ualual Incident (TIME, Dec. 24), but shall not discuss the real issue of whether Ualual is in Italian Somaliland, as Italians claim, or in Ethiopia, as Ethiopians...
When the League Council finally met to rubber stamp this formula, Ethiopia's Professor Jeze made his only score for the week. He glared at President Litvinoff and hissed: "You offer us the choice between suicide and assassination. Well, we prefer assassination...
Boss Pendergast's formula for treating the people right: "I am honest with the people. I gave them a good government. I take care of the poor. I give out all the jobs I can find. I never ask a man his politics, but I do him a good turn if I can. When I have treated the people right, they will vote my way on election day-that is, 75% of them will. The other 25% aren't worth bothering about...