Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frenchman took a big black paint brush last week and did his best to write in the bright lexicon of the Hoover-MacDonald Five-Power Naval Conference the four-letter English word "Fail...
Therefore the note which France sent in duplicate to all the naval parley Powers last week was handed out in an official English translation to U. S. correspondents at Paris, was handed out to Washington newsmen next day by the French embassy, but was not delivered to the State Department until four days afterwards...
Since President Herbert Hoover has caused to be publicly made known that he is vexed when people write to him and give the letter to the press before he replies (TIME, Aug. 26), it almost seemed last week that L'Americain had deliberately set out to double-vex the President. His action was applauded by the French Chamber of Deputies. Soon afterward the Chamber appropriated $50,000,000 to build seven submarines, six destroyers, one battle cruiser, four auxiliary ships and to buy a goodly supply of torpedoes and shells...
...Hoover did not charge last week. Instead he sent his most trusted diplomatist, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, hotfooting to Paris to parley with Prime Minister Tardieu...
Though mercilessly destructive in the main, the French note contained a brief constructive suggestion for a Mediterranean naval accord between France, Britain, Italy and Spain?a country not invited to the London parley. Since October, Spain has waited hopefully for an invitation. Spurred by the French note, she last week virtually demanded admission, Dictator Primo de Rivera citing "Spain's duty to intervene . . . because of her geography and history...