Word: potted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bustling up to Moscow last week went famed Leon Jouhaux, the portly "Tsar of French trade unionism." During last year's active "New Deal" period in France, pot-bellied Tsar Jouhaux was a hero to millions of workers who credited him with browbeating the Cabinet of Socialist Leon Blum into decreeing nationwide shorter hours, vacations with pay. After Socialist Blum was succeeded this year by middle-class Premier Camille Chautemps, who reined in the New Deal and announced an official "pause" (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante) the huge bulk of Labor's Jouhaux has been less impressive...
...promptly commandeered by Mussolini as one way of combatting sanctions. Snia Viscosa is now turning out almost 10,000,000 pounds of lanital a year. Having practically the same chemical composition as wool, it is made by mixing acid with skim milk. This extracts the casein, which looks like pot cheese. Evaporated to crystals, it is pulverized and dissolved into a molasses consistency, then forced through spinnerets like macaroni, passed through a hardening chemical bath, cut into fibres of any desired length. From 100 pounds of skim milk come 3.7 pounds of casein which converts to the same weight...
Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...
...Americans" by Elin L. Anderson, 286 pages, six illustrations, $3.00. Has the great American melting pot ceased to melt? Are the social chasms of race prejudice widening with great rapidity? It was to answer such questions as these that Mr. Anderson set out to consider scientifically the adjustments of racial groups in a single community, Burlington, Vermont...
...middle of this waning football season, Californians have suspected that Coach Leonard ("Stub") Allison had a great football team at the University of California. Gauge of the fact was that California used only 14 plays, most of them power plays, yet so well executed and so well mixed by pot-bellied Quarterback John Meek that they remained effective. Key man of the California team is six-foot four-inch All-America Centre Bob Herwig, who snaps the ball unerringly, runs fast interference, and backs up the line on defense. Most likely California All-America this year is Halfback Sam Chapman...