Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that this treason trial, held with full constitutional procedure, was open to the public-many traitors in the civil war's early days having been dispatched to their graves by star-chamber proceedings-was stressed by Barcelona correspondents as significant. The Leftist Government hoped that this trial would convince influential British opinion that it is not Red. Therefore, the most important charge, all correspondents agreed, was not any of the capital charges of treason for which the seven may be shot if found guilty. It was the charge that the defendants "did all they could to give...
...British Palestine Mandate Convention the U.S. has the same right as any League of Nations member to enter objections to any change in Britain's mandate over the Holy Land. Among 8,500 telegraphing protestants urging U.S. pressure on Britain to keep Palestine open to Jewish immigration were Representatives and Senators, five Governors, many Protestant churchmen, New York City's Council, prominent labor leaders, hundreds of Zionists, numerous literary and political figures...
...practicing Catholics. In Vienna last week, good Catholics worshiped timidly under the eyes of police, who also watched narrowly those who read their church bulletin boards, pasted with posters urging them to marry in the church. In his palace Cardinal Innitzer switched on his radio, listened to an open-air rally at which 100,000 Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black dog!" during a furious speech by Nazi Commissioner Josef Bürckel. Calling the Cardinal a friend of Jews, burly Herr Bürckel declared that negotiations with the Catholics to settle the matter of religious schools...
...problems was set up in Chicago last year in the New Bauhaus, directed by Hungarian Designer Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy (TIME, Oct. 25). Last summer hopes of this school appeared to be borne out in an exhibition of fresh experimental work by its students (TIME, July 11). But last month opening day came and Chicago's New Bauhaus did not reopen. Neither chunky Director Moholy-Nagy nor his backers, the supposedly well-heeled Association of Arts & Industries, would say anything except to their lawyers until last week. Then Moholy-Nagy sued the A.A.I. for $2,750 back salary, intimated sadly...
...been hoping against-widespread cuts in the price of crude oil. Initiated by small independents in the non-prorated States of Louisiana and Arkansas, the cuts were soon adopted by everyone, dropping the price from $1.22 to about $1.02, the first general cut since NRA. Thus brought into the open was a paradox which may knock the complex proration system galley-west: an efficient method of controlling production has been worked out, but since the Federal antitrust suit against the oil industry at Madison, Wis. last year, there has been no way of stabilizing the price or the quantity...