Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morris Sheppard of Texas, the gentle, whitehaired father of the late Prohibition experiment and diligent overseer of Senatorial campaign morality, last week went to the White House in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. News that President Roosevelt had secretly aided France in purchasing U. S. airplanes, revealed accidentally by the crash of a new Douglas bomber in California (TIME, Feb. 6), had upset and excited Military Affairs.* In the White House, President Roosevelt began to lecture Chairman Sheppard on his reasons for helping France, using background facts and confidential reports so arresting that Chairman...
Many Britons have of late forgiven Saint Gandhi his past sins as leader of the anti-British movement and have come to regard him as one of their best friends. To them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...
Brazil's Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra, who reminded his visitors of New York's late saintly Cardinal Hayes, greeted them as "spiritual ambassadors." Archbishop Pedro Pascual Farfan of Lima, Peru-an ancient Catholic city which produced the first American saint, St. Rose-addressed Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy with florid Spanish courtesy, insisted that they sit upon thrones at a reception...
...duties," i. e., soldiering, digging forts, making guns. Last week another batch of twelve papers went over the dam with an extra loud splash. Among them: the Berliner Tageblatt, once Germany's greatest liberal voice under exiled Editor Theodor Wolff; Kreuz-Zeitung, which Bismarck founded in 1848; the late Chancellor Dollfuss' Neue Freie Presse; the 236-year-old Wiener Zeitung...
...other Frenchy names for "saluts d'amour," etc. In 1916 he came to Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, arranged and directed musicals for Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Ziegfelu, Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin. He arranged the swipes that made the Revelers quartet a popular and much plagiarized sensation in the late...