Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the spy game follows a certain international routine, diplomatic Washington and Tokyo both professed blank ignorance of the whole affair. Secretary of State Hull said that all he knew about the matter was what he had read in the newspapers. Purred Navy Minister Osami Nagano in Tokyo: "In America, as in other countries, there are a few worthless individuals who try to obtain money from foreigners for supposedly valuable secret information, but we can't believe any Japanese officer attempted to use such persons...
What particularly galled Governor Hoffman were the following broadcast statements in Carter's clipped, British accent: "And so crazier and crazier grows the Hauptmann affair-more and more desperate over the week end became New Jersey's Governor to justify his official blundering and save his tottering political reputation-more and more dizzy stunts are dragged across the old trails to befuddle the public and confuse the main issue. "And so round and round-just as the music goes round and round-so round and round goes the Hauptmann affair-one of the most shocking exhibitions of gubernatorial...
...trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...
...wins the All-Star game is not particularly important. Some players, like Pitcher Carl Hubbell, who two years ago struck out five of the American League's best batsmen in succession, take the affair more seriously than others. Who plays in the All-Star games (rules call for at least one man from each club) is more significant, as a fleeting but true reflection of the huge, changing panorama of sport in the U. S. On last week's squads, baseball addicts found many a name which has for years been part of this panorama. They also found...
...really international, having no less than 170,000 members in 4,000 clubs in 82 lands. Kiwanis International with 90,000 members in 1,900 clubs is mostly confined to the U. S. and Canada. Lions International has two clubs in China but is largely a North American affair with 85,000 members, 2,700 clubs. Only Civitan International club outside the U. S. is in Toronto. The Civitans have less than 5,000 members, only 125 clubs. Chief Civitan is Charles Francis Cowdrey Jr., a Fitchburg, Mass. machinery maker...