Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the office of Publisher Frederick G. ("Bon") Bonfils of the incredibly yellow Denver Post and the office of his sly, genial partner, the late famed H. H. ("Tarn") Tammen, there used to be a desk to which each partner would send the kind of orders that great publishers send to their Men Friday. At that desk for many years sat Louis Levand, patient, portly, devoted. Brother John Levand was in the Post's circulation department. Brother Max, too, was on the staff, more driving and hard-boiled than the other two. "Bon" and "Tarn" sent him to be business...
...Prime Minister, he is seen to be courageous, rich and righteous. Born in the Province of New Brunswick, he early showed a passion for industry and recti tude. While other little boys and girls were at play, he read and later studied. Today at 60, though he can be genial, he has not yet learned to play...
...ruthless is Rumanian public opinion where Jews are concerned that the genial attitude of King Carol since his restoration has seemed to the Hebrew community almost too good to be true (TIME, June 23). Last week His Majesty followed up an earlier protestation of "love for my Jewish subjects" by exerting pressure on the Minister of Interior. Forthwith the Ministry's Chef de Cabinet, M. Tarfoianu, famed Rumanian Jew-baiter, was dismissed from his post. Jews continued to rejoice that during his protracted exile King Carol took a Jewish mistress...
...name, inserted a meaningless initial F. He learned civil engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose to be its chief engineer. Bald and bespectacled, he is a genial, easy-going engineer, never too busy or hyperefficient to stop and talk to friends or strangers. He will supervise the eight-year Boulder job from his headquarters in Denver...
...Prime Minister make the next vote one of confidence. He did so, won by a majority of 48, not astounding but sufficient. Quick as a magician producing a rabbit, M. Tardieu drew from his pocket and read to the Chamber an executive order signed by the President of France, genial Bachelor Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue, adjourning Parliament until November...