Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group until December 1930, when delegates of all except Finland met in Oslo, Norway to try nothing more elaborate than a mutual tariff agreement. Main trouble was that the best individual customers of all these countries were Germany and Britain, no parties to the original Oslo Convention. When the grand World Economic Conference fizzled out in 1933, the Oslo Convention as an actual agreement was virtually forgotten. But because all the Oslo countries save Belgium were bound by no military alliances and pledged to neutrality in any coming war, the Oslo Group continued voting and thinking alike at international conferences...
...your May 17 issue of TIME you refer to the Duke of Connaught as "Last surviving child of Queen Victoria," thus relegating to the realm of ghosts those two decidedly alive and grand old ladies, Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, both surviving offspring of the union of Victoria and Albert...
First item of business was for the new Prime Minister to "advise" His Majesty to confer an earldom and a knighthood in the Order of the Garter on Mr. Baldwin, to create Mrs. Lucy Baldwin a Dame 'Grand Cross of the British Empire. The Earl and his Countess thus reaped the reward of their joint services to the country, could retire among their pigs in Worcestershire with the calm eye, the warm glow that bespeak the performance of hard work well-recompensed...
...sunshine after days and days of heavy rain. Albert Lebrun, President of the French Republic, climbed into a big motor launch, chugged two miles down the Seine and up again accompanied by Premier Leon Blum, many a foreign ambassador and other bigwig. The party then hastened to the colonnaded Grand Palais and thus was inaugurated last week the Paris Exposition, originally scheduled to open...
...imagine England without its Royal Family than the U. S. without its Constitution. Last week, as in every week since President Roosevelt announced his intention of "revivifying" the Supreme Court, the Constitution was front-page news. In Washington and Philadelphia publicity-wise politicians were making capital of the grand old document's 150th anniversary. And last week appeared a timely, eminently readable history of the U. S. Constitution to show thoughtful readers what lay back of the headlines...