Word: signer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your Jan. 12 issue reported a statement by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti, citizen of Italy and disciple of Fascism, inveighing against spaghetti and other wheat paste products as inducing "torpor and pessimism." Signer Marinetti proposed to reduce the consumption of macaroni, spaghetti and kindred foods whose popularity now necessitates the importation of considerable quantities of wheat, as well as the finished product, chiefly from America. His plan involved the substitution of synthetic foods, on the basis that macaroni products are not "sufficiently dynamic" for hardy patriots...
...Maharaja of Bikaner, Maj-General His Highness Sir Ganga Singhji Bahadur (Signer for India of the Treaty of Versailles, member of His Majesty's Imperial War Cabinet, veteran of the World War, repeatedly decorated by Edward VII and George V, Hon. LL.D. Cambridge and Edinburgh, D.C.L. Oxford, Freeman of the Cities of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol...
Bulgaria's Boris Ill's engagement was announced in Rome at the office of Signer Benito Mussolini thus...
Suddenly, on the day before the Briand-Henderson speeches, Signer Grandi walked out of his Geneva hotel, slipped into his limousine, sped off in the general direction of Rome without notifying any of his fellow diplomats or even the League Secretariat...
...dissatisfaction of the disputants, thus gave him supreme judicial power. The committee's chairman will be J. S. Tow, Acting Chinese Consul General in New York, who, not so occupied with tourists & immigrants as other consuls general, may devote much time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders had signed it, scribes translated the document into brushstrokes on cerise paper, sent it to every U. S. Chinatown, proclaiming Consul Tow and Commissioner Mulrooney overlords...