Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Italo-Ethiopian War and the crisis over sanctions, Ambassador Grandi nursed Anglo-Italian relations through their most difficult period by alternately pounding the table and making conciliatory gestures. For this accomplishment the King made him a Count in 1937. At the meetings of the Non-intervention Committee Britons particularly admired his successful duels with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky. Although Dictator Mussolini consistently made a liar out of his Ambassador by violating pledges as fast as they were given, Count Grandi was able to persuade Prime Ministers Baldwin and Chamberlain to negotiate Mediterranean settlements guaranteeing the status...
Last week Secretary MacDonald again outraged the Zionists. Because of thousands of illegal immigrants, for a six-month period beginning next October no Jews will be permitted officially to enter Palestine. After that, resumption of immigration will "depend upon the circumstances prevailing"-i.e., upon whether the illegal immigration meanwhile stops...
...last year, Radio is a blue-chip big business. But it has one great obstacle to its future: so long as all station licenses come up for review before the Federal Communications Commission every year, no radio station can guarantee its existence for any longer period. Since FCC took up its cudgel in 1934, it has conked no heads to speak of, and last week Steve Early turned up in Atlantic City, reiterated the "unofficial" reassurances of his White House chief that that big stick is just a lath. Unfortunately, at the moment the big stick was very much...
...Theoretically unlimited, in practice most free-skating repertories, including Sonja Henie's, are limited by the fact that competitive figure skaters ordinarily perfect no more feats than they need to eke out four minutes (five minutes for men) in competition. This official time limit was determined by the period figure skaters can leap and whirl without falling on their exhausted faces. Although Henie has enriched her repertory with ice dances such as her Pavlova-inspired "Dying Swan," her standbys are those of other figure skaters: the Lutze jump; Jackson Haynes (a sit spin); Axel-Paulsen...
...Summer is biggest pickle sales period. Reason: picnics and basket lunches...