Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans of Goodwill." Summoned by President Doumergue to form a cabinet last week, Fighter Tardieu accepted the mandate with characteristic brusqueness. He would not consult party leaders and try to win their support, he said. Others had done that and failed. Instead he would ask "republicans of good will," like Briand, to enter his cabinet on their personal responsibility, without impliedly pledging the support of their parties. With this cabinet he would face the Chamber of Deputies and they might unseat or sustain him as they chose. In effect, M. Tardieu slapped down before all France the following cabinet list...
...nine "republicans of good will" starred (*) above held posts in the last cabinet. Of utmost political importance are the three new ministers from the party of Hornet Daladier?namely M. Hubert (Justice), M. Marraud (Public Instruction), M. Gallet (Pensions). It is just possible that the presence of these Radical Socialists will swing the vote of that party to the cabinet, though Hornet Daladier was believed preparing to sting again. In reality Tardieu L'Americain was appealing to French public opinion over the heads of politicians?a trick he may possibly have learned in the U. S. On the face...
...news of Berlin's noisome Sklarek scandal (TIME, Oct. 21). Brusquely the Berlin City Council ordered Mayor Boess to return immediately, tell whether he had bought Frau Boess a $1,000 fur coat from the Sklarek brothers, city contractors, and only paid $100 for it. Taking his own good time, Bürgermeister Boess returned only last week...
...star reporter" for the New York Evening Post. When there was an especially good fire, murder, tempest or celebrity, he reported it. He got a "byline" over his stories: By Norman Klein. He was good at his job. He had worked on other papers-the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News. For two years he had been War correspondent on the British front for the Chicago Daily News. He liked the life: he liked the excitement of beating a deadline, of turning in a good story in half the requisite amount of time; he liked meeting famed people, going queer...
...tower was the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Modelled after the Washington Monument, its 32 stories rise 447 ft. 3 in. above street level from a larger square base two stories in height. Last August when Secretary of War James William Good helped dedicate it, it was ecstatically dubbed the "Washington Monument of the Northwest...