Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...averse is Sir John to publicity for himself or other B. B. C. folk that he vetoed a public opening of any sort, unbent on May 3 only to the extent of personally hoisting the B. B. C. flag: "A terrestrial globe on an azure field, representing the ether, with the seven remaining planets in the sky around it. Around the globe is a, golden ring representing broadcast transmissions through the ether encircling the earth...
...ever lived ?that it was not necessary for a U. S. firm to audit his vast affairs. He had not only one but three great Swedish firms of auditors which over a period of years and throughout the civilized world had learned how to keep track of the globe-girdling assets and liabilities of his huge money-lending match company. So great was Sweden's reputation for honesty that Lee, Higginson decided, as a practical matter, to accept a Swedish audit of the greatest Swede...
...which the late Julius Rosenwald gave for Jewish colonization in Crimea. Nathan Straus Jr. did not take part in Zionist affairs until comparatively recently. Educated at Heidelberg and Princeton (as a graduate student under Woodrow Wilson), he became a cub reporter for the New York Globe, bought Puck in 1914, built its circulation from 18,000 to 105,000. The anti-Semitism which Life then featured he fought hotly. Publisher Straus was a pacifist, earned the thanks of President Wilson for an anti-War editorial. But he went to War himself. Serious, sardonic, rather shy, today he says...
...grim, guttural Apache, Golney ("Mac") Seymour, undersized Redskin buck, told a Federal court in Globe. Ariz. last week how he happened to attack and kill white Henrietta Schmerler, Columbia University student, last summer (TIME...
...prisoner's stolid, blanketed kinsmen sat in the sun outside the courthouse, occasionally rising to peer curiously through the windows at a ritual they did not understand. Some of the more adventurous found a place in Globe where "the picture that dances" was being exhibited. Cinema ushers had to limit them to two performances in succession for one admission...