Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Between times the Press picked up what news it could of the strangely behaving U. S. Delegates. Best tidbit of last week was the Delegates' failure to realize that invitations to dine with the "Fishmongers' Company'' meant a chance to banquet with one of London's richest guilds off sumptuous gold plates. Nearly half the Delegates invited threw away their Fishmongers' invitations, unaware that the banquet was being given by special request of His Majesty's Government. The Press also twitted two breezy Southern Delegates, Texas ice & utilities Tycoon Ralph W. Morrison...
...Texas ranching tycoon Ralph W. Morrison. Not much concerned with Conference backstairs intrigue (see p. 15), Mr. Morrison sat through more Conference sessions than any other U. S. Delegate, puffed a fat cigar in pleasant ignorance that all the little signs reading "Prière de ne pas fiimcr" meant "Please do not smoke...
Siamese courtiers swear that King Prajadhipok. when consulted by his puzzled treasurer, ordered promptly sent to modest Dr. Wheeler a check for $250,000-which to Siamese meant the staggering sum of 587,000 bahts...
...toil and worship is that of Amish Colony of the Mennonite sect on the central Illinois flats. Tilling the soil on large farms, its rugged members have always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would go tractors and drivers...
...French of the student body both resigned from college. Many another student had already planned not to return next year because of a new "unit-cost" plan which will raise tuition fees to about $1,340.* Hamilton Holt seemed doggedly intent on having his own way even if it meant decimating his faculty and losing leading students. With him he had a complaisant board of trustees, save for Mrs. Raymond Robins, Florida bookshop proprietor and wife of Herbert Hoover's reformer friend who disappeared with amnesia for some weeks last year (TIME, Sept. 19 et Seq.) She hastened...