Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. While President Roosevelt went off to the Jefferson Islands Club for his weekend "charm school'' party (see col. j), the van Zeelands stayed for a round of Washington parties, visited New York and it was announced that Premier van Zeeland would return this week...
...third time since Socialist Léon Blum formed his Popular Front Government (TIME, June 15, 1936), scared money was in flight from France last week, rushing to other havens at such alarming pace that the Bank of France, striving to tempt its return, had to jack up the already high Paris central bank discount rate of 4% to the "panic rate" of 6%. The Blum Cabinet for the third time in nine months was desperately short of cash. First time this happened (TIME, Oct. 5), Finance Minister Vincent Auriol devalued the franc by 40%, carried on with the "profits...
...screen or on the printed page, the trench scenes from Erich Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...
...fast game of polo. As U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Forbes displayed no less aplomb at his diplomatic tasks in Tokyo during the strained days of the Manchurian crisis. His wealth, tact and toughness won him such respect among the Japanese that at a farewell banquet before his return to the U. S. the president of the House of Peers declared him "a worthy compeer of George Washington...
...returning class itself the twenty-fifth reunion is most valuable. It permits the renewal of friendships that may have lapsed because of geographical and other reasons, it enables Harvard men who have come from all sections to exchange views on the University and life in general, and above all it gives a restful and amusing holiday on which the returning graduates can relieve the scenes of their youth, sporting on the green sward, often with the boon of families, and partaking of such rare Falernian as Cambridge still has to offer. Thus from every point of view the return...