Word: informant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the Davieses may leave Moscow long before their cream is gone was last week prime Washington chitchat. No secret is it that that fragile Anglophile, Robert Worth Bingham, who failed to inform the State Department of the Simpson Crisis until it exploded in Commons, has impressed his superiors as something less than an ideal Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Should he retire soon as expected, what more natural than that the able husband of one of the nation's richest women should hope to succeed to his glittering job? Attesting their eligibility, Joe Davies & wife have...
...obstacle to which radiomen and educators alike devoted much earnest thought last week was the inability of educators to fill free time with interesting programs. President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America bluntly declared: "Radio programs can be created to inform the mind and elevate the spirit, but when one seeks to impose upon them the requirement that they also furnish mental training and discipline, one narrows their appeal and risks the dispersion of the invisible audience...
This is to inform you of an erroneous statement made in the Nov. 30 issue of TIME...
...Meehan had plenty of time to brood upon his case before the SEC's hearing got under way. Then last spring in the middle of the proceedings his attorney had to announce: "It is unfortunate that Mr. Meehan cannot take the stand in his own defense . . . his doctors inform me . . . that the state of his health is such that it is impossible for him to appear. I understand that the Commission's doctor ... is of similar opinion." Broker Meehan dropped from the news, and the Meehan case, still undecided, dragged on without...
...avoid an unpopular move. So long as the French Army seemed solidly for Napoleon or his heir, they would avoid a showdown. The Sixth Corps of the French Army, under the square-faced, conscientious, devoted Duke of Ragusa, was at Essonnes, close to Paris. Caulaincourt therefore was to inform Ragusa of the changed plans, proceed to Paris with Napoleon's abdication, stall for time in negotiations with Alexander, while Napoleon maneuvered his troops and those of Ragusa in preparation for battle out side the city walls. The threat alone might sway the Allies to favor Napoleon...