Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked with our tongues in our cheeks often-clipping the home papers and altering date lines, coining the expression that "it never rains on the Riviera and there's always snow in Switzerland" as we headed the press releases sent in by our advertisers, and damning the sheet for the gutless wonder it always has been-but there were times when I think our work refuted your claim the paper was run by "smalltown newspapermen...
...Germán Busch was born in 1904 in the hot, fertile, coffee-growing region of central Bolivia, midway between the edge of the Chaco and the rust-colored, tin-filled mountains around La Paz. His father, after stopping three arrows in an attack by savages, went to Germany, sent Germán and his mother to Trinidad. Germán went to a provincial school, entered military college...
Last year Manhattan's famed Progressive Lincoln School sent a group of 16-year-olds to the coal fields of Morgantown, W. Va., to learn how the other half lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned to Manhattan to ponder what they had seen, gain two years in understanding and thinking power, by scientific tests (TIME, Oct. 31). Thereupon Lincoln School and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which financed the trip, decided to find out whether their educational experiment would work as well in reverse. Last...
...Uniting Conference, President Roosevelt sent an approving message: "To a world distracted by malice, envy and ill will . . . a harbinger of better things. . . . The Methodists have pointed the way. . . . May God prosper the work . . . combat the forces of strife that threaten our heritage of religion...
Died. Andreas Kleiber, 95, snowy-bearded sentry who comprised the entire army of the tiny European principality of Liechtenstein; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. He was the last survivor of the 58-man force sent by his country to Austria...