Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show of Might, Geneva weaseled around all Ethiopia's appeals, clear up to the ingenious decision by League Arbiter Nicolas Politis on the original Italo-Ethiopian armed clash at Ualual (TIME, Sept. 16) that neither side and nobody was to blame. Last week Might tipped Geneva's scale against Italy at a secret conference of League bigwigs ending at 11:10 a. m. At 11:40 the Council of the League was to make in public the decision reached in private. Two minutes before this public session began, Italy's delegation, led by eagle-bald Baron Pompeo...
Both super-pacific Sir Austen Chamberlain, onetime British Foreign Secretary and Nobel Peace Prizeman, and super-militant Benito Mussolini have loudly declared in the present crisis that ''Sanctions mean War!" Once the League's nicely calculated scale of penalties begins to be applied, tempers must soon be lost all around and blood will begin to flow. Last week, though the first step toward sanctions had been taken under Article XV, alternative possibilities were more numerous than neophytes not familiar with League loopholes could imagine. For example the Committee of Thirteen could draft a report such that Ethiopia...
...unraveled in a long-drawn courtroom scene. The crime which took place on the night of Jan. 16 concerns a fictional Swede named Bjorn Faulkner, who bears a close resemblance to a real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named Karen Andre (Doris Nolan) arrive in Manhattan where he sets her up in a penthouse. After the Crash he finds that he has only one asset left, his personable self, which he is willing to trade in marriage to the daughter...
...unsuccessful attempt was made by William F. Loomis '36 to scale Mt. Waddington. This peak has never been climbed, although thirteen previous expeditions had tried Loomis was only 500 feet from the summit before he was forced to admit defeat...
...teams. The center of the B line was operated upon and Sowell Greeley was brought up and placed in the incision at center. After the signal drill had been completed, the A and B backfields were scrambled together with a seasoning of talent from lower down the scale...