Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving Buenos Aires Nov. 19 in a Panagra plane, the last issue of TIME I had received, Oct. 28 issue, was in hand for early reading. This was handled long before reaching Mendoza...
With London's airport fogbound last week British Foreign Secretary "Flying Sam" Hoare left for Paris by train & boat instead of plane. Ninety minutes after his arrival Sir Samuel was closeted with Premier Pierre Laval and the permanent experts who make British and French foreign policy, Sir Robert Vansittart and M. Alexis Leger, plus their sub-experts on Ethiopia, Mr. Maurice Peterson and Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. The tension and excitement were terrific. Upon the table lay in draft form on crisp sheets "The Deal...
...recent British General Election was fought and won on a plane of loftily denying the simultaneous diplomatic work which went steadily forward to make The Deal for peace between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week 24 days had passed since Britons voted. The Deal, involving dismemberment of Ethiopia to the extent of Italy's securing approximately half of Haile Selassie's Empire, was briskly approved in Paris last week by Sir Samuel Hoare who had just finished announcing in the House of Commons that to be "acceptable" any terms of peace must satisfy Italy, the League...
...Italy in the death of Haile Selassie was obvious, but Good Soldier Badoglio forgot one thing. When a soldier is wounded, he screams and sometimes dies. When a war correspondent is wounded his scream is heard around the world. Some 1,000 bombs dropped in the 17 minutes the planes circled over Dessye killed 53 persons, wounded 200. In the mêlée somebody shot Correspondent Georges Goyon of the Havas News Agency through the knee, and a Miss Petra Hoevig, Red Cross nurse serving in the Adventist hospital, broke her leg jumping into a trench for safety...
...morning plane from Miami settled down to a landing in Havana and out stepped a bespectacled, rumple-haired man who once was called "the best known North American in Central and South America." It was not because he was president of Princeton University that the Cuban Government had sent a hurry call for Harold Willis Dodds. The Government had on its hands an electoral tangle which had caused Cuba's Presidential election to be postponed three times in a year...