Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education-were picked by the President to advise his $50,000,000 National Youth Administration. Among them were: Owen D. Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram Lindley of the University of Kansas, 65; Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim, 65, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66. Some youngsters also got on the committee: A. A. Berle Jr., 40; Amelia Earhart Putnam...
...every point except that when the League meets in regular session Sept. 4 it will simply have to discuss Italy and Ethiopia. Even such discussion the Dictator at first called "Unacceptable!" Then he grudgingly yielded. Around midnight the Big Three took time off to telephone Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, telling him as President of the Council to convene it next day. Somebody also telephoned Professor Jeze about 2 a. m. to come around and get the League formula. It provides that the totally deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian conciliation commission shall again discuss whether Italians or Ethiopians fired the first...
...Russia that the Soviet Government "would not permit formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group aimed at bringing about by force any change in the political or social order of the United States." If this pledge was worth the paper on which Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff signed, it meant that the Comintern, or Moscow organization of the World's Communist Parties for "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," would be dissolved. Fortnight ago it was still going so strong that its Seventh Congress met in the former Hall of Nobles, but efforts...
Roly-poly Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff used Geneva for years as a soap box from which, with Jewish wit, he mocked the Great Powers for the hypocrisy of their peace diplomacy, noted that League of Nations proceedings often resemble fencing in the dark with pussywillows...
...which were down to only some $15,000,000 in 1934, have doubled in volume so far this year. This fact he turned into a feat of diplomacy by instructing William Christian Bullitt, long-suffering U. S. Ambassador in Moscow, to agree with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that Russia, in return for the indicated increase in her purchases from the U. S. during the next twelvemonth, shall enjoy for that period a 50% reduction in the U. S. tariff on manganese, one of Russia's chief exports to the U. S., a 12½% tariff slash...