Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reference to the column Milestones, TIME, Feb. 24, I was indeed surprised to find your account so brief as to omit all mention of one of Hiram Percy Maxim's greatest interests: Amateur Radio. Himself the holder of an amateur "ticket" [license], he was the esteemed president of the Amateur's foremost protective interest, the American Radio Relay League. In the hearts of Hams [operators] will he be remembered longest and best...
...Howard confronted the Dictator with the fact that Soviet Russia has violated and continues to violate the solemn promises of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 27-1933) Soviet wits have accurately said that the Daughters of the American Revolution probably could not be permitted to meet in Moscow if the Litvinoff engagements were fulfilled to the letter by the Soviet Government. Mr. Howard's point was that they are not fulfilled. Comrade Stalin's rebuttal was by implication that it would be absurd for the Soviet Union to do what...
...that the enemy of France is always going to be Germany. Launching swift efforts to strengthen old French alliances against the Reich and forge new ones, venerable but vivacious Louis Barthou had a glorious time dashing from capital to capital. In Geneva he sat down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that, if any Eastern European State burst out of its frontiers, the others would...
...unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief executive since 1910, except for the year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed family of inventors, best known for his Maxim silencer; of a throat ailment; in La Junta, Colo. Died. James Harvey Robinson, 72, noted historian and editor, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Professor of European History at Columbia University for 27 years, he resigned...