Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a phoney check drawn on the Globe National Bank of Denver, Colo, and passed by this notorious crook...
...spite of the "administrative responsibilities" of the past 16 years, Scripps-Howard's Howard has nevertheless managed to keep a dramatic hand in "national and international relationships." In the past three years he has circled the globe twice. The last junket, from which he returned last April, kept him away from home eight months. That he was earning his salary every minute he was absent, no one can deny. As he stepped on the boat at San Francisco last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase...
...London's New Burlington Galleries, surrealist artists from 14 countries held their first British exhibition. Londoners gaped at The Last Voyage of Captain Cook, a wire globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child...
...Duke was supposed to have returned to Italy primarily for kidney-stone treatment. Last week's developments explained further. Named new Viceroy of Ethiopia, to do the exhausting job of "civilizing" one of the most recalcitrant native peoples on the globe, was bristling Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 53. The 64-year-old Duke of Addis Ababa resumed in Italy his post of Chief of the General Staff...
...high. Indebtedness for remodeling the old Christian Science Publishing House as an administration building was paid off. Debt-free remained the new, massy $4,500,000 Publishing House, to which journeyed 120,000 visitors to behold its Mapparium containing the world's largest globe (TIME, June 17, 1935). Finally, the meeting learned that "the developments of this hour in world history are not disheartening to the thinker in Christian Science. These developments corroborate and fulfill our Leader's prophecy (Miscellany 281:28): 'War will end when nations are ripe for progress...