Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strictly speaking-though no one spoke strictly-the Conference met not in Lausanne, high above placid Lac Leman, but in suburban Ouchy at the water's brim, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. Around an oblong table the delegates of 14 nations* faced each other with a great calm. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Premier Edouard Herriot, Chancellor Franz von Papen and the rest knew that their action must be to postpone action, adopt a temporary European moratorium and lay plans for drawing the U. S. into general cancellation of Reparations & Debts-after the U. S. elections...
...Amendment must be repealed. It was "National Repeal Week," sponsored by the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform of which Mrs. Sabin is national chairman, Mrs. Roosevelt campaign chief. After their horn-blowing motorcades, during which they were careful not to smoke cigarets in conservative districts, the suburban ladies returned to make streetcorner speeches patterned after Mrs. Sabin's radio address. Excerpts from the latter...
...North Shore. For the last 13 years round-faced, bespectacled Carl Richard Chindblom has pontifically represented in the House the 10th Illinois District-the North Shore suburban strip from Chicago to the Wisconsin line. Last week the Republican primary turned Mr. Chindblom out of office and nominated in his stead James Simpson Jr.. polite 27-year-old son of Marshall Field's board chairman (TIME, Oct. 26). Nominated as a Wet, Junior Simpson will face a Wet Democrat in the election. The W. C. T. U. whose home, Evanston, is in the Simpson district, grieved...
...cater to suburban trade, large retailers have for some time been experimenting with two kinds of small stores. Chain stores have been highly successful in selling standardized merchandise at low prices for cash. Branch stores (subsidiaries of a large central unit, as distinguished from chains of small units) hitherto have had two handicaps to overcome: 1) they have been unable to carry the huge stocks that have made successes of such stores as Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.; 2) in the case of stores specializing in a few types of goods, the branches have not always been able...
...friends with Charmerace but falls in love with him. This causes Lionel Barrymore to grunt, rub his chin with one hand, make his eyes pop. It does not prevent Arsene Lupin from helping himself to bonds, jewels and expensive pictures. Presently Lupin's signed depredations occur at the suburban chateau of one Gourney-Martin, where Charmerace also happens to be staying. After this he steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, a misdemeanor which causes his identity to be revealed...