Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hutchinson has lived around Boston all his life. He graduated from Harvard in 1928, after playing golf and one year of J.V. hockey. He was the J.V.'s leading scorer. During the 1930s he had several offers to coach, but he turned them down to set up a brokerage firm with his brother...
Contingents of army, navy and air force - 120 men of each service - circle the field and begin to sing The Three Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points of Attention, a Red Army ballad from the 1930s. Still no Chou or anyone else around to suggest the momentous collision of East and West. About ten minutes before touchdown, the silence of the sky is broken. The presidential plane drops into view...
...York Vaudeville News. He joined the New York Mirror as a columnist in 1929 and began enticing his readers with the latest on what moom pitcher star was seen handholding what sweedee pie at El Morocco. As his following grew, so too did his impudence. Throughout the 1930s, the gang at Lindy's and housewives everywhere sniggered at such items as "Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poet, just bought a new set of store teeth...
...China found themselves using phrases like "As Chou En-lai once told Edgar Snow . . ." or "As Mao Tse-tung recently explained to Snow . . ." Journalist-Author Snow not only had unique access to Peking and a lifetime of expertise but also a personal friendship with Mao dating back to the 1930s. Last year Mao's American friend could relate reliably in LIFE that the Chairman would welcome a visit by Richard Nixon "either as a tourist or as President...
...nationalist parties, but it also shares many characteristics with them. Up to a point, the evolution of relations between the Viet Cong and the established political system paralleled that of the sects and other parties. Like them, the Viet Minh developed organizational and political consciousness in the 1930s; it then came into conflict with the French and their puppet authorities; after 1954 it in effect withdrew and, like the other sects and parties, went underground during the period when Diem was attempting to centralize authority and eliminate local centers of power...