Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will list the names of all your new friends. Make a friend every day from a different country! Good luck to you all and good camping." In the grand Jamboree march with banners flying, fifes trilling, bugles blaring and drums grumbling, Swedish Scouts distinguished themselves by releasing scores of toy balloons as they marched past Prince Gustav and his recently wedded Princess Sibylle. A letter from President Roosevelt, Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America, was read: "It stirs our imagination and kindles our emotions to contemplate the possible implications growing out of this pilgrimage of these young...
...comrades marched and countermarched across Europe, he could see them all in his mind's eye, every rank, every regiment, from drummer boy to Bonaparte. To refresh his memory there were 47,000 other French prisoners in Britain. He began to make a complete set of 16-in. toy models of what...
Fortnight ago Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum announced that Sir Robert Ludwig Mond had given it Charles Sandre's toy army. Sir Robert is a trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum, a brother of the late British nickel tycoon, Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett. While the Museum was waiting for the army to arrive, its director, Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, called the colorful collection "effective anti-war propaganda. . . . Just as in arms and armor the diabolical nature of the whole thing is revealed, so we will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms...
...makers' inventories are low and a large fruit & vegetable pack is expected. The Hawaiian pineapple pack is estimated at 8,000,000 cases against 5,000,000 last year. Messrs. Moore, Reid & Leeds wound up and ran their companies like small boys playing with toy trains. When they retired with enormous promoting profits, they carried the same methods into their glittering social life. "Tin Plate" Leeds paid his first wife $1,000,000 for a divorce. His widow managed to wed Prince Christopher of Greece and his son married and was divorced by Princess Xenia of Russia.* Judge Moore...
Thus, by their learned computations, eminent French statesmen turned the estimated deficit for 1933 into something like a toy balloon alternately blown up and permitted to deflate. During this process two French Cabinets-those of Edouard Herriot and Joseph Paul Boncour-re- soundingly fell (TIME, Dec. 26 & Feb. 6). Last week blustering, dynamic Premier Edouard Daiadier won vote after vote on the budget in the Chamber and Senate. His estimates reduced the expected deficit to a mere 5,566,000,000 francs...