Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth the paper on which Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff signed, it meant that the Comintern, or Moscow organization of the World's Communist Parties for "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," would be dissolved. Fortnight ago it was still going so strong that its Seventh Congress met in the former Hall of Nobles, but efforts were made to suggest that the Comintern had adopted a new policy of supporting democratic governments temporarily as bulwarks against Fascism (TIME, Aug. 5). This change of policy was supposed to apply to France-following negotiations of Dictator Joseph Stalin...
...support the French Army, an unprecedented heresy from the Old Bolshevik point of view (TIME, May 27). This heresy was enshrined at Moscow last week as Communist dogma. In the former Hall of Nobles, some 600 Communist Party delegates from nearly every country in the world met as the Seventh Congress of the Comintern, cheered Dictator Stalin for 15 minutes as "the Leader of the World Proletariat," and got their orders...
Thus warmly in Manhattan last week did Vice President & General Manager Crawford T. Perkinson of Mount Hope Cemetery Association keynote before the seventh annual convention of the New York State Association of Cemeteries, whose 900 member institutions bury 150,000 people a year at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn Cemetery drove this pious point home, declaring that: "From time immemorial, people have endeavored to perpetuate the memory of their loved ones. In a greater sense this has been a service to the living. By keeping these last resting places as hallowed spots...
...Esplanade by the Charles River in Boston, Arthur Fiedler opened the seventh season of concerts by Boston Symphony men. Governor James Michael Curley hyperbolically saluted "the finest musicians and the finest leader...
...knows whether it was Ebenezer Butterick or his smart wife Ellen who invented the standardized paper pattern for clothes. Plodding, methodical Ebenezer, seventh son of a Sterling, Mass, carpenter, sat down in his tailor shop in June 1863 and snipped out of 'stiff paper the first commercial shirt patterns. They sold like hotcakes. But when the Buttericks moved to Fitchburg it was ambitious Ellen who got Ebenezer to double his market by making patterns for children's clothes. Because Giuseppe Garibaldi was then a world hero, Ellen and Ebenezer designed their children's patterns after the Italian Liberator's uniform...