Word: quiteness
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...last year succeeded popular Sir Eric Drummond as League Secretary General, he became almost human. Secretary Avenol is a recluse who lives in a vast Geneva villa jammed with works of art and historical manuscripts he has picked up on his extensive travels. When Japan and then Germany quit the League, mournful M. Avenol prepared for the worst (TIME, Oct. 23). "The League has lost popularity and prestige," he croaked in one of his rare public statements, "and we know that the alternative is not between the League and a better system. It is between the League and chaos...
...Vice President Francis J. Gorman, a dark, stocky, ruddy-faced man, equally as well dressed as Leader McMahon, but more aggressive, was sent to Washington to prepare for the strike. Turning down overtures of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, he announced that 300,000 cotton textile workers would quit, bringing the whole industry to a sudden stop...
...Valley. In spite of Arizona's land laws which forbid aliens ineligible for U. S. citizenship from owning, leasing or farming land except as laborers, yellow men and brown were already farming 8,000 acres. It was time to put a stop to it! Let every Japanese and Hindu quit the valley by Saturday night or the Aryans would run them...
Donald continued to worry: "I have to get back to my job. I have to keep my priority. . . . Can't lose my priority. . . . I'm talking a lot. I've got to quit that. I'm afraid I'll just keep it up until...
...specialists in women's diseases, the Brothers Ira DeVer and Lucien C. Warner, rented a wooden house in Cortland, N. Y., hired some girls to make "health"' corsets. Two years later they opened a factory in Bridgeport. By 1880 their corset business was so prosperous that they quit the medical profession, moved to Bridgeport...