Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 30--Foreign Minister Koki Hirota today publicly confirmed the grim determination of the Japanese government to denounce the Washington Naval Limitation Agreements...
...Send for Colonel de la Roque," ordered Premier Gaston Doumergue last week as his Cabinet seemed about to fall. The Colonel is France's No. 1 Fascist, grim-jawed leader of the Cross of Fire league of some 200,000 war veterans. Last winter they were in the vanguard of the riots against "rotten Parliamentarianism" in the Place de la Concorde when 28 Frenchmen were shot down (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week Paris tingled with electric rumors that the "Cross of Fire" was ready to rise and attempt a coup d'état, should Premier Doumergue be overthrown...
...that distracted Provost Moore tossed the whole affair up to his highly embarrassed superior, President Sproul. Last week President Sproul arrived grim-faced in Los Angeles to begin a thoroughgoing investigation. Said he: "I want to get at the underlying truth of the entire question, which at present is not altogether clear...
...advocates of Government economy this was a grim case of one step forward and three steps back. To them it was all the more grim because the three steps back covered more ground than the one step forward. Although the 15%, pay cut saved around $150,000,000 a year, the three steps back will cost an estimated $180,000,000 a year. Reason: In 20 months the army of Federal employes has been enormously increased by the New Deal. ¶ One day last week a distinguished gathering met in the President's office. There was Secretary Morgenthau, Jacob Viner...
Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. S. One of the most ingenious automatons ever contrived by man, a grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store...