Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons the longest bill it ever passed, and thus giving 350,000,000 Indians a new Constitution (TIME, June 17). The reward was Sir Samuel's appointment as His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the star Cabinet portfolio. Last week a British Royal Air Force plane carried "Flying Sam" to Geneva where he at once dwarfed handsome young Captain Anthony Eden, His Majesty's Minister for League of Nations Affairs. All the world knew that if any voice could halt Dictator Benito Mussolini's prospective war of African conquest, that voice was Great Britain...
...better than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition dump, captures the Paraguayan ace, El Zorro, "the fox who flies like an eagle...
...been finally settled, sprang naturally from the embarrassment of Peace Lovers when it was at first thought that British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden would find himself reeking with the odor of oil when he rose in Geneva to carry the Italy-Ethiopia crisis onto a high moral plane. The fact that Promoter Rickett is British and at first said that part of his financial backing was British had made young Mr. Eden look out of character for a few days in his world-popular role as the Lindbergh of Diplomacy...
...spin around the triangular course got going, it seemed their choice was wise. Out into the lead of the five other planes shot Turner, ''polishing pylons" with his usual wizardry. For nine out of the ten laps he apparently had the race won. Suddenly, near the finish, the crowd was stunned to see a thick black plume of smoke belch from his Hornet motor as an oil-line clogged. Out of the race dropped Favorite Turner, managing to land safely in his oil-spattered racer. Into the lead went steady Mister Mulligan to win in the slow time...
Senator Nye arrived later by plane from Washington, where in the last Congress he introduced no less than four neutrality resolutions and a bill to take the profits out of war. U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery obligingly arranged an interview at the Presidential Palace. As everyone expected, President Mendieta politely pointed out that nothing could be done until his provisional Government was replaced by an elected one. And after the interview Senator Nye made an awkward effort to appease Cuban feeling, declaring: "We made no demands for payment nor was there any peremptory tone in our conference with Mendieta. . . . Cuba...