Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Robert Douglas, worried about comfort stations (TIME, Aug. 29), at "the 1939 World's Fair," a slap on the wrist from the West. By the 1939 World's Fair did he mean the San Francisco Fair or the New York Fair? (TIME, in parentheses, assumes he meant the latter...
Meantime, the Czech crisis and the ominous maneuvers of 1,300,000 German soldiers beyond the French frontier, placed French Communists and Socialists in a corner. Premier Daladier's proposal to emasculate the 40-hour law was a slap in their face but they dared not set out to wreck his Cabinet...
...Tydings of Maryland and Representative John Joseph O'Connor of New York. Their names brought to four the list of eminent Democrats along the eastern seaboard publicly consigned to purgatory by the President's Purge. The others: Senators Smith of South Carolina and George of Georgia. To slap the latter further down, the White House last week caused RFC to oust, "for political activities," Senator George's stanch supporter. Edgar B. Dunlap, counsel to RFC's Atlanta office...
...what many Britons hoped was a slap at Adolf Hitler their rulers performed two exceptional acts last week in quick succession: 1) Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare waived formalities, turned into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...
...George, who is writing his memoirs and is the object of much sympathy in fashionable Mayfair, then blurred the sharp outlines of the "slap at Hitler" by going off to week-end with the Fuhrer's greatest friend in England, the Most Hon. The Marquess of Londonderry...