Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 1934 the U. S. S. R., long considered an outcast by other powers, was voted into membership of the League of Nations, and its delegate and Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, was duly seated. At that time, and later, the Geneva platform was used as an international sounding board for Comrade Litvinoff's clean-cut, often stirring theses-against aggression, for the rights of small nations, on the immorality...
...surely "without a shadow of cause of justification," has, indeed, made war against Finland. And as last week the League met to do something about it, another Soviet delegate, Jacob Z. Suritz, also Ambassador to France, delivered no such ringing anti-aggression exhortations as used to be expected from Maxim Litvinoff...
...Foreign Minister. At other times he has been the Finnish Minister to Latvia and Estonia and special delegate to the League of Nations. It was he who, as Foreign Minister, signed the "good-neighbor" agreement with the Soviet Union in February 1937. He and the then Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff became good friends...
...Berlin, before the Academy, Lawyer Frank defined Germany's new code as "war law," predicted that these Nazi principles of law would soon become a part of world law. "The maxim 'Right is whatever profits a nation; wrong is whatever harms it,' marked the beginning of our legal work," Dr. Frank keynoted. "Pale phantoms of objective justice do not exist for us any more. . . . The transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger...
...Once gouty always gouty" is an old medical maxim, yet doctors believe that clean living and plenty of outdoor exercise can reduce attacks to mere demonstrations in force. Standard treatment, besides wrapping the throbbing foot in cotton wool, is a diet with plenty of water, and strangely enough, fat, especially fresh butter. Many doctors also rely on injections of colchicine (from the root of the autumn crocus) to relieve the agonizing pain, and cinchophen (a complicated synthetic acid) to promote uric acid elimination...