Word: attender
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Governor General invited the Japanese to a reception. The Japanese accepted, planning to attend in native costume or uniform. The Dutch sent word that those who attend receptions of the Governor General always go in formal European dress. Immediately, each tailor shop in town received orders for five or six small tail coats. At the reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol...
...Canterbury's 25th birthday dinner in Manhattan last week went rich and famous men: retired Steelman James A. Farrell and Railroader Henry Havemeyer, trustees of the school; 100-odd old boys, among them Philip Burnham, editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. Too busy to attend was old Canterburian Robert Sweeney of the American Eagle Squadron, training as air fighters in England. In jail in Italy was George Ehret, '29, accused of fooling around with Italian currency (TIME, Nov. 25). Classmates were not surprised, recalled that George once catapulted a butterball to the dining-room ceiling under...
...Kapitza went to the U. S. S. R. to attend a scientific meeting. When he started back to England, the dictatorship of the proletariat stopped him, said he was needed at home (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935). There were frustrated roars from the late Lord Rutherford and other big wigs of British science, only miserable silence from Kapitza...
...Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain held a Cabinet meeting to consider the arrangements Pierre Laval had made. Laval appeared tired and anxious. Everything had been prepared, he explained. Hitler and Ribbentrop would be present at the ceremony in Les Invalides. Marshal Petain, as Chief of State, would also attend, as of course would he, Laval, as Foreign Minister. There would be a French guard of honor, as well as a German one. The ceremony would seal the rapprochement between France and Germany...
Last week Leadville was all keyed up. On a bright, brittle December morning, its townspeople gathered in their old two-story red courthouse to attend what was potentially one of the greatest bargain sales of all time. Climax Molybdenum Co.'s Bartlett Mountain mine, which contains about 90% of the world's known supply of molybdenum, was to be knocked down for its unpaid 1939 county taxes: $294,938.75, including interest...