Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edward W. Griffin, 69, Secretary of Alaska since 1933 and its Acting Governor in the absence of holidaying Governor John W. Troy; of heart disease; in Juneau. As he rose smiling from his seat to speak at a public meeting he toppled over dead...
...Harvard University Press acted immediately on the designation of Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, to occupy a seat on the Supreme-Court by sending his eminently successful book, "Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court," into a fourth large printing...
...Fascintern, with Hitler in the driver's seat, with Mussolini, Franco and the Japanese military cabal riding behind, emerged in 1938 as an international, revolutionary movement. Rant as he might against the machinations of international Communism and international Jewry, or rave as he would that he was just a Pan-German trying to get all the Germans back in one nation, Führer Hitler had himself become the world's No. 1 International Revolutionist?so much so that if the oft-predicted struggle between Fascism and Communism now takes place it will be only because two revolutionist dictators. Hitler...
After the parade, Marty resumed his seat in the Chamber, expected to resume his post on the Chamber's Army Committee. But last week a petition with 50 signatures was produced which denied him the Committee post. Deputy Marty's military record, not in the Spanish People's Army but in the French Republic's Army and Navy, was exhumed and used against him. An unusual...
Advance copies of Mr. Chamberlain's speech, marked "confidential," were given to correspondents (including the German) at No. 10 Downing Street at 3 p.m., five hours before the dinner at distinguished Grosvenor House. At 6 p.m. German Ambassador Herbert von Dirksen, who was to occupy a seat at the speakers' table, got hold of a copy of the speech, telephoned Berlin. At 7 p.m. Ambassador von Dirksen notified 25 obedient Nazi newsmen not to attend, and telephoned his "regrets" to the association. The Ambassador "felt an embarrassing situation might arise if in the course of the evening mention...