Word: goats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arranger of the game was neither Secretary of War nor Secretary of the Navy, each of whom had failed on several occasions to bring about a reconciliation between the stubborn military Mule and the hard-headed nautical Goat. The contest was first seriously proposed by long-legged Sports Editor Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News (TIME, Nov. 17). And the man who finally turned the trick was New York's official greeter and one-time police commissioner, Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen who, having joined the Salvation Army's relief committee, tried to get Secretaries Hurley...
...Liphook, Hampshire live Sidney and Beatrice Webb, foremost economists of the British Labor Party. Their telephone number is "Passfield 6," telegraphic address "Passfield," and he is the First Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner. Last week the wrath of millions of Jews was loosed upon this spindly-shanked bee-bellied, goat-bearded little scholar. Reason: potent Lord Passfield in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the Colonies had, just restated the Palestinian policy of His Majesty's Government in these terms...
Prime Minister Count Bethlen, absent at Geneva, escaped the ructions. Scape goat was Dr. Joseph Vass, 53, Minister for Social Welfare & Labor, and acting Prime Minister. He was a Roman Catholic Monsignor, formerly professor of theology at the University of Budapest before he entered politics ten years ago as a leader of the Christian National Party. He was unaccustomed to riotous conduct. Last week's disturbances caused his death, from heart failure...
...fifth commission's "admirable" result: agreement of all concerned parties to a double-span bridge from Rincon Hill in San Francisco to Goat Island (Naval training station), thence to Emeryville on the Oakland side. To pacify the Navy it was agreed that battleships should be able to pass underneath. Chief points conceded in the compromise were: 1) by San Francisco, desire to have the bridge connect with Alameda; 2) by the Navy Department, fear that a possible enemy air force might bomb the bridge, bottle up a U. S. fleet in the Bay. Last week the War Department approved...
...presentation of shows which Chicagoans will pay to see. But the Institute's play-choosing committee will not Broadwayize the Goodman repertoire below the level of New York's Theatre Guild. Titles being considered for next year: Hedda Gabler, The Would Be Gentleman, Anna Christie, The Goat Song, Milestones, Rebound, The Firebrand...