Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a balky bus. the Disarmament Conference moves fitfully. It took a tremendous leap forward last week when diplomats in Rome agreed to a revised version of Benito Mussolini's Four-Power Pact, when U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis pledged a mild degree of U. S. co-operation in enforcing peace (TIME, May 29). Last week the bus jolted to an abrupt halt. Brakes were applied by French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour before even his own Prime Minister realized...
...Secretary of the Treasury; Herbert Jackson Drane of Florida to be a Federal power Commissioner; Conway P. Coe of Maryland to be Commissioner of Patents; Fred W. Johnson of Wyoming to be Commissioner of the General Land Office. Ewin Lamar Davis, Tennessee "lame duck," brother of Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis, got a minor job as trade commissioner...
Geneva. Meanwhile things were popping in other capitals. U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis rushed to Geneva followed by British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. In Paris there was a special Cabinet meeting out of which came long-haired Joseph Paul-Boncour, French Foreign Minister, to speed to Geneva too. Not only the Mussolini Peace Pact but the MacDonald Disarmament Plan (TIME, March 27)* was walking again. Nazi Delegate Nadolny (see p. 12), who nearly wrecked the conference fortnight ago, reappeared in Geneva to say that Germany would now accept the MacDonald Plan without insisting on immediate rearmament...
...indictment of Gaston B. Means for trying to swindle Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $35,000 to be used in exchange for "hot" ransom money paid to kidnappers in the Lindbergh case (TIME, May 16, 1932): conviction in the District of Columbia Supreme Court of Means and Co-defendant Norman T. Whitaker...
...test of a nation's sense of stability is the manner in which it treats crimes against the state. In Britain month ago a young Highland officer, Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart, was tried for espionage and high treason in the full glare of publicity. In Italy last week a secret military tribunal met behind locked doors to try the case of 25-year-old half-French, half-Italian Camilla Agliardi of Brescia and her lover, Warrant Officer Ugo Traviglia. They had been in jail for months, but only a handful of people in all Italy knew they had been...