Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Suspicious." The executive committee of the Amateur Athletic Union sitting in conclave in the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, dwelt on the word. They were talking about Stanislaw Petkiewicz, Polish runner, beater of Paavo Nurmi, who had asked for permission to run in U. S. meets (TIME, Dec. 30). Had some promoter asked Petkiewicz to come over? Was he really interested simply in finding how law -his chosen subject-is taught in U. S. schools? Who were his friends? These questions, to the executive committee presided over by a serious man named Avery Brundage, seemed far more important than whether Petkiewicz could...
This afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the living room of the Harvard Union is to be held the third University Tea, which is to be primarily for the benefit of the Law School. Editors of the Law Review are to usher and wives of various members of the faculty will be hostesses...
...Hendrickson, professor of Greek and Latin literature in Yale University; Julian Morgenstern, president of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, and professor of Biblical and Semitic languages; Colbert Searles, professor of Romance languages in the University of Minnesota; J. W. Thompson, professor of medieval history in the University of Chicago; Clarence Ward, professor of the history and appreciation of art in Oberlin College...
...Council, in turn, is a member of the International Union of Academies, formed just after the War for the promotion of international intercourse in various fields of scholarship...
Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Acting Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, is tired of having Ambassador Herbette walk in with diplomatic notes from powers who do not recognize Soviet Russia. He was tired the first time it happened. When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sent a reminder of Russia's obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy...