Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because he is famed for prophecies of gloom and war. He interviewed Dictator Benito Mussolini month ago and that modern Caesar, instead of growling fresh warning to the world, suggested dovelike that President Roosevelt should arrange an arms limitation conference. Last week Mr. Simms reported that he had seen Premier Leon Blum in Paris. Gazing upon the trees and lawns of Matignon Palace he had heard the gospel of peace preached once more. Europe, declared the French Premier, is on the verge of catastrophe because everywhere arms are being piled up. Premier Blum's solution: let every interested power...
...startling suggestion; it had been endorsed, if not effected, by every Disarmament Conference since the Treaty of Versailles. And everyone knows that Europe's credit, especially France's, is already badly strained by Rearmament. But a certain freshness of point and purpose was lent to Premier Blum's remarks by echoes from the conference of the International Labor Office, meeting at Geneva. There, representing President Roosevelt and U. S. Labor, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady sounded off: "I predict that the world's working men and women will not forever be content to stand...
French Delegate Léon Jouhaux struck the same note. To Premier Blum the voice of goatee-waggling Léon Jouhaux, epicure, onetime longshoreman, is even more a master's voice than is John L. Lewis' to Franklin Roosevelt. Léon Jouhaux bosses not half but all of France's organized labor front, key force in the Popular Front whose votes keep Premier Blum in power. Roared Léon Jouhaux at Geneva: "You cannot on one hand prepare for war and on the other develop social justice...
Fortnight ago Fumitaka Konoye, 22, son of Japan's new Premier, made the world press by being elected captain of Princeton's golf team (TIME, June 14). Last week Princess Yori, 6, third daughter of Japan's Emperor, had a picture of herself relay racing at the Peeress' School printed in the New York Times. Captioned the Times: A JAPANESE PRINCESS MAKES THE TEAM...
Elected captain of Princeton University's golf team was Fumitaka Konoye, 22, class of 1938, son of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Short, stocky, usually laughing, Son Konoye is golf champion of Princeton, speaks perfect English (including slang). Next to golf his best sports are boxing and riding. He is majoring in politics, also likes Spanish, music, psychology. Proposed career: Diplomacy. His room in Pyne Hall, where he lives with Stuart Aitkin of Bala, Pa., is plastered with cartoons from Esquire...