Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money, the committee requested a conference with Lewis. Telegraphed he from Washington: "May I suggest that it will be a complete waste of time for all concerned for your committee to attend this meeting unless you are prepared to carry out the instructions imposed upon your officers by the recent Canonsburg convention. The policy of fluttering procrastination followed by your board is already responsible for the loss of some weeks of time and must be abandoned. ... If you do not yet know your own mind, please stay at home...
...traditional knowledge of British subjects that their civil servants are incorruptible was at stake last week as a verdict was handed down on the recent case in which part of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's new Budget leaked out in advance to speculators who made small killings by insuring with Lloyd's Underwriters against new and higher taxes (TIME, May 4 et seq.). Because the secrets thus disclosed in criminal violation of the Official Secrets Act were known to every Cabinet member, to high Treasury civil servants and even to Government printers, Britons last week awaited...
...Irrepressibly Parisiennes declared that "The best men in the Blum cabinet are Irene, Cecile and Suzanne." Great & famed Irene was at the time of her appointment by Premier Blum just leaving for London last week to lecture medical savants on her most recent work in evolving synthetic radioactive drugs which, because of their light atomic weight, can be injected and tolerated by the human body while they do their cancer-killing work. Radium's great Irene then flew from London to Paris, prepared to consecrate herself to Politics...
...Knapp, according to recent reports, boasts two pianos, an electric organ, and an electric guiter...
...recent firearms investigation conducted by authorities reminded us of the fate of the gift of the French Government to Harvard made shortly after the Great War. It seems that the Harvard Battery was presented with several French, air-cooled machine guns which, because of the difficulty in obtaining suitable ammunition, were promptly stored in the basement of what is now Kirkland House...