Word: ets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drive, announced it had a war chest of $3,000,000. Observers believed A. F. of L. unions would soon have to raise dues to make up for revenues lost by C.I.O. defections. U. S. organized Labor's mortal combat, anticipated for two years (TIME, Oct. 28, 1935, et...
Seven rambunctious Canadian mothers with a total of 65 children have been champing at the bit for four months demanding a verdict in the $500,000 Toronto Stork Derby (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), which concluded last Halloween. Last week they heard with relief that positively no claims filed after April 8 will be valid. That hearty, Rabelaisian character Mrs. Martin Kenny, mother of eleven, was keeping the Canadian press in convulsions by telling reporters: "I know positively that I am going to have the most children at one time. ... I never felt like this before with...
...Naotake Sato. In Tokyo his official rating was Ambassador to France last week, when suddenly he became Foreign Minister. Mr. Sato is emphatically a civilian, whereas the point of view of General-Premier Senjuro Hayashi's new "Gold Braid Cabinet" is extremely militarist (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), but the new Foreign Minister quickly made an adroit move. His civilian predecessors at the Foreign Office have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet- whereas under the Japanese Constitution the exalted positions of the Cabinet Ministers, especially those...
...East St. Louis. Four years later Rogers rescued Dr. Isaac D. Kelley from mysterious St. Louis kidnappers. All St. Louis wondered about the Kelley case. Reporter Rogers solved it early in 1934 when a "pipeline" produced news that implicated Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench and others (TIME, May 11, 1931, et...
...still burning with anger and purpose. From March 1934 until November 1935 he had sat in Washington as chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, pleading for funds to save U. S. wildlife, meeting with bland indifference or red tape on every side (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et seq.). Politicians from the top down told him that nobody could get Government money for wildlife or anything else unless a good strong group of voters put the screws on their Congressmen. Tossing up his job, "Ding" set out to organize such a pressure group, determined to teach both Democrats...