Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcements of the most authoritative character made it seem certain, last week, that the governors of Europe's great central banks of issue have told Gates W. McGarrah, now board chairman ol the New York Federal Reserve Bank, that they wish to elect him board chairman of the new Bank for International Settlements soon to be set up in Basle, Switzerland, as "the cash register of German reparations" (TIME, March...
Spoofy though all this sounded, it was fact: Clown Rogers had lunched and dined at the embassy, had sat with Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Stimson, is accorded large license everywhere at the conference. One Rogersgram announced that the conference had spent "one solid week of doing nothing but attempting to pronounce the Japanese delegate Wakatsuki's name. Next week the agenda calls for the pronunciation of the Frenchmen's names...
...living in England for climatic, artistic, economic, gastronomic and other reasons. John Gialdini, Anglo-Italian banker, former partner of super-swindler Clarence Charles Hatry (TIME, Oct. 21, et seq.) has one all sufficient reason for living in Italy: there is no criminal extradition treaty between Italy and Britain. Last week he was more than ever satisfied with his Italian domicile. His four former partners-pale and spectacular Clarence Hatry, stolid Albert Edward Tabor, colorless Edmund Daniels and Charles Graham Dixon-stood at the bar of Old Bailey to be sentenced for forgery, to wit: Swindling nearly $10,000,000 from...
...trial at Paris last week was one Comrade Saveli Litvinov, round-faced Russian of ebullient-humor, who is charged with forging notes to a total value of more than $1,000,000. He claims to be the brother of Soviet Russia's Foreign Minister, moon-faced Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov...
...Paris last week the Municipal Council took vigorous steps to stamp out such old fogyism, to force everyone who is not blind to see advertisements...