Word: ir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mausolus at Halicarnassus (c. 353 B.C.). The favorite mausoleum of a generation ago resembled a Greek shrine; today's favorite more appropriately resembles a Frigidaire. But last week near Wilmington, Del., a family noted for its independence was about ready to move the remains of the late Alfred Irénée du Pont into a tomb of quite original design and princely size. One of the largest concrete and granite towers in the world, 210 feet high, with an eventual capacity of six Du Ponts, it was planned by A. I.'s architect son, Alfred Victor...
...became contaminated after it left Kingston." Then investigators of the U. S. Food & Drug Administration, who, fearing another sulfanilamide catastrophe (see above), had ganged up on Dr. Neal, announced that the deadly bottle had come from the Bio-chemical Research Foundation in Philadelphia, an institution financed by Chemical Industrialist Irénée du Pont and headed by Biochemist Ellice McDonald...
Prim Music-mentor Boulanger writes no music herself. Teaching other musicians to write is her fulltime job. In her earlier years she taught the ABC's of composition, pushed adolescent hopefuls through courses in elementary harmony and counterpoint, the grammar and syntax of music. But nowadays she ir besieged by full-fledged composers who have outgrown their schoolbooks, need expert advice on polishing off finished compositions...
...Also in prison last week, not in Rightist Spain, but in France, lodged barrel-chested Major Julian Troncoso, Commandant of Irún, Franco agent on the French-Spanish border. Arrested for alleged connection with the subnapping episode fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 27), and the terrorist activities of a Rightist French secret society, Les Cagoulards (the Hooded Men) Major Troncoso boasted that Franco would retaliate with arrests of French consuls in his territory. Franco threatened the San Sebastián French consul with arrest, then capitulated, was reported to have booted out Major Troncoso as his Irún agent...
Biggest war news from the Spanish front, however, was what went on behind the fighting lines on both sides. At Irún on the Rightist side the Spanish frontier was hermetically closed. Rightists explained : this was to prevent details of the advance on Santander leaking out to Leftist agents. Leftists explained: this was to keep news of new anti-Franco insurrections from the world. San Sebastian, theoretically completely calm since September, was reported the scene of one outbreak. Leftists reported that their scouts had heard firing behind the Rightists' lines not in one but several localities. The reason...