Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worldly woman, "tine petite fille," he sees great merit. Fortnight ago French Justice was generous to small Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger ("Miss St. Louis 1923"). She was acquitted at Nice of murdering her U. S. husband, after confessing that she shot him at the black end of a jealous quarrel (TIME, June 1, et ante). Last week large Texas Guinan got no French generosity whatever, was held at Havre in a room with barred windows, having as furniture three iron beds and one spittoon...
Greenland, cause of this happily averted quarrel, is Denmark's only colony and three times as large as Denmark. Eskimos are still almost the only inhabitants of Greenland, not because there are no opportunities for Danes and others there, but because Denmark shuts out all foreign immigration and permits only a handful of Danes to reside in Greenland, half of them workers in the cryolite mines. This curious policy, which costs Denmark about $150,000 per year in Colonial outlay (Greenland could easily be "made to pay"), is based on a philanthropic concept: Greenland for the Eskimos...
...them her Long Island estate, was fretting last week for an appeal to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was sailing home from France after visiting his sick mother. Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Coffey-Humber eastern attorney and most temperate of all contestants in the great California-New York cancer treatment quarrel, decided he would not go to court at once, would rather ask the Welfare Board for a rehearing...
...hands-adjourned the session soon afterward to prevent more blundering. In Germany a large section of the Press was indignant. Germania, the Cabinet organ, flayed "M. Briand's astoundingly sharp answer to a calm and purely objective speech by the German Foreign Minister." French Plan. The Curtius-Briand quarrel brought United-States-of-Europe talk to an abrupt halt. It also weakened the slender chance that the League Council (which can only act by unanimous vote) would be able to get anywhere with its May agenda. When the Council met, two days later, two of its biggest jobs were...
...passed. Not until March 21 did Ford, Ltd. smell a rat, on hearing that Dr. Owen had been suspended as Director of the Oxford Institute. General Manager Smith called up Dr. Owen at his luxurious hotel in Cannes. Dr. Owen said that his suspension was due to a "personal quarrel" at Oxford and would not affect Ford, Ltd.'s nomination. Suspicion, during the next three weeks, built its nest around the Perfect Swindler. His letterheads and his clichés, it was noticed, were not quite like British officialdom's letterheads and cliches. By April 16, Dr. Owen...