Word: suit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Count Ciano, dressed in a white suit, was half an hour late. The Führer, who has recently been in a beaming, expansive mood, and who at Berchtesgaden likes to sleep late in the morning and talk late at night with his old cronies, was cordial. Lunch was long. Long was the talk after it. At tea time Count Ciano was still there. Then, literally as well as figuratively, the Führer took his guest, emissary of his Axis partner, up in the mountains to look at the view...
Last December the U. S. extended China a credit of $25,000,000 for farm and industrial purchases. In March Great Britain followed suit with a credit for the same amount, to support Chinese currency. These two loans put a deceptive rouge on China's pale financial face. Last week Chinese officials in Chungking said that Soviet Russia would soon lend China 700,000,000 rubles ($140,000,000), that a preliminary loan of $30,000,000 had been settled. If the huge credit goes through, China's face will get some really healthy color...
...saying, he upped the price of his principal finished product (gasoline) by a half-cent a gallon in 42 States where Consolidated's wholly-owned subsidiary, Sinclair Refining Co., has filling stations. This was an invitation for the rest of the business to follow suit and get some of the profits in a year when motor fuel sales were running nearly 5% over record...
...Court of St. James's, went for a swim at San Sebástian beach in Franco's Spain, he was tapped by a Spanish cop, who quoted Spain's antiquated new beach laws (TIME, Aug. 7), made him don a top to his bathing suit...
...last March, when shortages of some $99,000 were discovered in the funds of his diocese. Ordinarily, the matter would not have been discussed until the bishop's resignation came before the Episcopal House of Bishops, at its meeting next November. But last month two Michigan laymen brought suit against the bishop and four trustees, demanding an accounting and restitution of the funds. And last week the Chicago Tribune splashed out stories picturing 51-year-old Bishop Ablewhite as a worldly prelate, a drinker of Scotch whiskey and champagne...