Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three weeks ago Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin abolished Saturday and Sunday, instituted a new calendar, placed Russian industries on continuous working basis (TIME, Oct. 7). Kindred ideas of high pressure efficiency came last week to Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. He issued a manifesto...
...fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said he: "If I see them riding . . . the animal atmosphere is dispelled for me for ever...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association held in New York on Sunday. Harvard was represented by H. W. Clark '23, assistant graduate manager of athletics, and J. D. Allen '31, manager of this year's foil men. Fourteen other colleges in the east sent their representatives to this conference, which was called to discuss proposed changes in the rules and to fix the date for the Intercollegiate meet...
...Britain considers her world-wide requirements. 2) Britain, with the U. S. concurring, would issue an invitation to France, Italy and Japan to discuss at London the reduction of all fleets so that the U. S.-British level of potency may be as low as possible. Reporter Hoover. On Sunday the President telephoned in to Washington (see p. 13) and told his secretary to tell the world that the Five-Power Parley invitations would go out at once. Conference date: January 20. Orator MacDonald. On Monday, the Prime Minister addressed the Senate. Aside from his keynotes (see above), his gist...
...spate from the autumn rains. Hoover-MacDonald actions over the weekend. Three-hour motor ride to camp. After dinner, the President, the Prime Minister and Secretary of State Stimson sat in front of the fire in the living room of the President's cabin and talked "for hours." Sunday breakfast was at 8 o'clock. A Marine corps airplane dropped the Sunday newspapers. President and Prime Minister talked on the porch until 11, then the thalassocrats (chiefs of sea powers ) walked upstream beside the rushing Rapidan for three-quarters of a mile. Seeing a log, they sat upon...