Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above favorite maxim of Il Duce, that "No one may claim equality with him who represents the Government of the State," was given peculiar legal force at a Cabinet meeting last week. Rapping for order, Il Duce presented a decree embodying the notorious "electoral reforms" recently proposed by the Fascist Grand Council (TIME...
Married. Miss Martha C. Codman, 60, heiress, of Newport and Washington, D.C.; to Maxim Rarolik, 30, Russian tenor who made his Manhattan debut in 1924; on the Cote d'Azur, Southern France...
Such were words flung, last week at Geneva, by a stout, leather-lunged, aggressive Russian at the gentlemen who compose the League's Preparatory Disarmament Commission (TIME, Sept. 26, et seq.). The gentlemen, having been called "purely decorative," sat unmoved. The Russian, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, then proposed that every nation should...
...their way to Geneva, the Russian delegation, headed by the garrulous Maxim Litvinoff, stopped off in Berlin to confer with the German delegation while the latter were figuratively packing their suitcases The reason for this rendezvous is pretty well known in European diplomatic circles. It is the intention of these nations to pour coals of fire upon their late and present enemies by being the outstanding espousers of world disarmament at the conference to come. Says M. Litvinoff: "Only 12.7 percent of the Russian budget goes for military enterprises, where-as the other powers, except Germany, spend between 20 percent...
...detailed context of Mr. Hanford's article there is little to be said. If a maxim is to be offered it is--"Peruse--and contemplate thereon." One learns that, "examination papers will have to be prepared and graded with especial care"; that regular tutorial reading in addition to course reading will continue during the Reading Period--a fact not plainly understood heretofore; that the Library is making plans so as to be able to meet the increasing demands on its shelves; that there will be no "mechanical check on attendance"--possibly the most practical evidence of the University's sincere...