Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open letter to the Crimson from Elliott C. Cutler, '09, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, welcomes undergraduates to participation in the Tercentenary Celebration, and shows specifically what they may do to help it along. But the main stumbling block, which is the date of the affair before the reopening of college, still remains to be solved...
...TIME, Oct. 17, 1932; Nov. 18), that isolated outbreak on one small ship of George Ill's navy looms larger than it should, has been given undeserved credit for causing widespread naval reforms. What really focused British attention on the seamen's plight was a much bigger affair that broke out in home waters eight years after the Bounty mutiny. In The Floating Republic Authors Manwaring & Dobree give a straightforward, factual account of the events which crippled two whole fleets and kept all England buzzing in the spring...
...fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat by a yellow press. At best they could do no good, for it is inconceivable to think that Colonel Lindbergh would have left any unrevealed evidence...
...local one. . . '? Shall we say to the children who have worked all day: 'Child labor is a local issue. . . '? Shall we say to the laborer: '. . . If your employer will not even meet with you to discuss your problems and his, that is none of our affair'? "Members of the Congress, let these challenges be met! If this is what these gentlemen want, let them say so to the Congress of the United States! Let them no longer hide their dissent in a cowardly cloak of generality! Yes, let them define the issues! We have been...
Fascist officials were far less cocky. Scenting the raid's disastrous effect on foreign opinion, Under-Secretary of State Fulvio Suvich sent a guarded apology to Stockholm. The Press was ordered to make no further reference to the affair but to whoop it up for Sub-Lieut. Tito Minniti, the captured aviator whose decapitation supposedly started the trouble. At Reggio Calabria, the grimy southern town where Minniti was born, flags were half-masted and houses draped in black. Proudly his old Calabrian father cried...