Word: globe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More suspicious than most were two reporters from the Le Mars semiweekly Globe-Post, who tried to get a picture of 91-year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace of her mother. Mrs. Knox told the sheriff that her mother was on a trip, that she had hired a woman to impersonate her. She had been collecting her mother's $40 monthly Civil War pension. Pressed, Mrs. Knox said Mrs. Trow had gone to Nebraska with a friend...
...Arab territory constitutes one of the world's last frontiers, with population scarcer than in any .other inhabited part of the globe. Palestine is rich in many minerals, can grow almost any kind of fruit or vegetable, has sufficient water supply. Instead of being overpopulated, it is notoriously undermanned. If as dense as Massachusetts, it would have 5,270,000 instead of 1,300,000 inhabitants. It now supports only one-tenth of the population of Roman times...
...Baltimore, Ambrose J. Kennedy, Democratic candidate for U. S. Representative from Maryland, was making a political speech in the Thomas Jefferson Club's hall, which has a seating capacity of 200. One hundred and ninety-nine seats were filled. Suddenly a heavy electric light globe plopped down from the ceiling, hit the one vacant seat...
...England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been able to seize Hong Kong at the end of the British lifeline, which vibrated slightly last week with a fizzled putsch...
...Premier decided to take on the Foreign Affairs portfolio himself for the time being, quickly appointed as new Ambassador to the U. S. his Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, 52-year-old Kensuke Horinouchi, a cultured, urbane globe trotter with 27 years of diplomatic life behind him. No stranger to the U. S., Ambassador Horinouchi served as counselor to the embassy in Washington in 1930 and as consul general in New York...