Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign Commissar, omitted the usual mention of Mme Litvinoff...
...mention all this only in order to show that your view, Mr. Roosevelt, although undoubtedly deserving of all honor, finds no confirmation in the history either of your own country or of the rest of the world...
...Antwort; each time he got guffaws from the gallery and deputies. Big moment in hilarity came when the Führer got to Question No. 18 and read down the list of the 31 nations to which President Roosevelt had asked Herr Hitler to give assurances of nonaggression. The mention of Palestine wowed the Jew-baiting Nazis; they laughed so hard that Herr Hitler had to stop for a moment...
...Times has so far refused to consider any contract that does not contain an open-shop clause. The Guild is forbidden by its constitution to accept the open-shop principle, although in contracts with other publishers it has frequently agreed to open-shop conditions by omitting any mention of a "Guild shop" (a modified closed shop). By bringing the home life of the Times into the open the Guild hopes to make it easier for Timesmen to join up, eventually to get a contract...
...stimulating way in which they carry on a tradition, the beginnings of which are not far behind us. In the hands of the great majority of contemporary artists, the cubism of Cezanne, the effective grotesqueness of Van Gogh, and the myriad contributions of other men too numerous to mention, have taken on a prosaic and domestic dullness. A tradition, in order to thrive, must be continued in the spirit of its originators. Stevens and Jones, together with others whose paintings are on exhibit, are among those painting today who are suited to seize the baton from the hands of their...