Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that German men do not like to see their wives in a new dress or hat every few months, that women should learn "to abandon a dress when it is used up and not when it becomes unfashionable." Prime mover in this audacious campaign is brush-haired, portly Dr. Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), Labor Front Leader whose tirades against alcohol, nicotine and debauchery have long excited the mirth of knowing Nazis who recall his bibulous "Strength Through Joy" trip accompanied by bevies of blooming beauties. Opening a "House for the Care of Beauty" in Berlin recently, Dr. Ley, whose wife...
Japan's little soldiers had found it convenient to forget two things: 1) the Japanese themselves delayed the opening of the talks for two weeks, while British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie cooled his heels, occasionally wiring the Gaimusho (foreign office) in Tokyo that he was ready any time; 2) the Japanese agreed before the parleys opened that anti-British demonstrations were not consistent with heart-to-heart discussion; and yet last week demonstrations were getting bigger, if anything-10,000 shouted "Down with Britain!" on the Embassy's very doorstep...
...week's end Japanese Ambassador-at-Large Sotomatsu Kato warned Sir Robert that unless Great Britain resumed negotiations within 24 hours, the Army delegations would break up the parley, go back to Tientsin, set off another boiler under Neville Chamberlain. After 24 hours the parley was still recessed. Without losing their tempers, the soldiers buckled on their swords and flew back to China. "If Britain mends her ways," said one, "we might come back...
...Ukraine? In these or many other possible cases, his probable fate will be that of a Fascist-Trotskyist wrecker. Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov, latest to gamble his life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs." Comrade Eikhe, who quietly disappeared last summer, had done the same to the "accomplices" of his predecessor, Commissar Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov...
Died. Amy Irwin McCormick, 59, artist, art patron and wife of Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick (the Chicago Tribune), of pneumonia; in Chicago...