Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European frontier. Close to midnight verbal promises to sign this pact within 24 hours were exchanged. Reports were current that Persia and Afghanistan will also sign, thus further strengthening the Soviet Union which has always feared aggression. Third score of the week for the big. beaming Russian was a quiet agreement reached in the chambers of British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. This cleaned up the mess resulting from Moscow's badly bungled trial of English engineers for sabotage (TIME, March 27 et seq.). Because two of the engineers, Leslie Thornton and William MacDonald, were held imprisoned in Russia...
...girls' college. . . . Today . . . as he sails for Europe, ensconced in the royal suite, reporters besiege him for a word, while Kings. Ambassadors, Prime Ministers, Premiers and publicists . . . anxiously await his arrival . . . accompanied by one of the greatest showmen in the world [Adviser Swope] . . . . He is an unobtrusive, quiet person, pleasant, but not particularly impressive, and certainly not brilliant." Nevertheless, the world so needed Statesman Moley that when his ship reached Cobh, Ireland an airplane was waiting to fly him to London. But Statesman Moley sailed on to Plymouth and there entrained for a Conference which threatened to raise again...
...Came the dawn and he was still there, disheveled and wild-eyed, with the yo-yo string still dangling from his trembling fingers. . . . Eventually poor Blennerhassett was taken away. . . . Today he is happy in a quiet place in the country and under sympathetic surveillance he practices...
...floor. Ben Marshall lightened the tone of the Drake, installed an oyster bar, started serving 50? buffet lunches and $1 buffet Thursday night dinners which were jammed all last winter. It was also Ben Marshall & friends who, under a lease from Metropolitan Life, reopened the Blackstone last month. A quiet, palm-cluttered, expensive place, where total charge accounts used to run as high as $80,000 a month, the Blackstone was completely refurbished for the Fair. Rates were cut 30% but old Blackstoners were startled to find an orchestra and dance floor in the grill...
Byfield. Although his four hotels are in receivership Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield is today Chicago's most famed hotel keeper. A shrewd and amusing businessman whose friends range from Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd to Accordionist Phil Baker, he owns the quiet, fashionable Ambassador East, the gayer Ambassador West where Ernie Byfield entertains leading stage and screen folk, the Sherman where Ben Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims...