Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels, President Roosevelt's perennial Ambassador-at-Large, grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, was encouraged by all to make the first speech at the Conference. He did so. If the President and Mr. Davis had cared to take Mr. Eden at his solemn word, they could have proposed vigorous action to "quarantine world lawlessness," and the United Kingdom would have been bound to follow in giving the Conference a shove in that direction. Instead, the keynote struck by Ambassador Davis was: "We come to this Conference to study with our colleagues the problems which concern...
Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opposed this, citing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia as an example of satisfactorily settling a dispute by armed force (TIME, May 18, 1936 et ante), and claimed that the words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis...
Kirkland's star triple-threat halfback, Jack McClure, was the outstanding player on the field and ripped off long gains through the line and around end. The line play of Grey, at left guard, featured the Harvardians' defense...
...Kirkland lineup will be the same that started most of their games in the regular season, include Wood and Snyder at ends, Baum and Hewitt at tackles, Arnold and Grey at guards, Keene at center, Wills at quarterback, Mayne and O'Kelly at halfbacks, and McClure at fullback...
Stettinius has just turned 37, has a big backlog of executive training. Son and namesake of the original Edward Reilly Stettinius, Morgan partner and U. S. director of Allied Munitions' purchases during the War, "Little Stet" craved a career of his own. Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides...