Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's social conscience may well rejoice when it hears the glad tidings that the international crisis has at last penetrated the cloister walls of that Wellesley-satellite, Pine Manor. The powers-that-be have decided to postpone their production of Archibald MacLeish's "Air Raid" in order "to avoid complicating the international situation...
...change brought promotions to two of Ed Noble's former CAA associates. Up to the vacated chairmanship moved Robert Hinckley of Utah, 48. Into the Hinckley seat moved Edward Pearson Warner, a professor of aeronautics at M. I. T., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, lately a technical adviser to Ed Noble...
Last week, as reports of Air Force and troop concentrations in western Germany rolled in, Premier Hendrikus Colijn decided not to be caught napping. Dutch defense plans are to block invaders by blowing up the dikes and flooding one-third of the country, but this takes time to organize. Queen Wilhelmina ordered border battalions mustered to full strength to forestall possible German seizure of the vital sluice gates. Machine guns were placed along the border and reservists were ordered ready for instant service. Harbors and roads were mined. Amsterdam's great commercial airport was commandeered by the Government...
...bungling affairs that he could so competently manage, Pegler is against everything and everybody according to his whim." Chief guttersniper in Mr. Ickes' category was "Mr. Munchausen," identified in advance copies of the speech as Paul Mallon, although CBS induced Mr. Ickes not to call names over the air. Several of Columnist Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies. On the other hand, Columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen (who heave many a mean brick, but rarely at Mr. Ickes) "write a lively and on the whole interesting column of dependable news...
...together four bingles, a fielder's choice, and a double steal to account for two runs in the third inning and to all purposes won the ball game right there. Big Tom breezed along, mowing the Tigers down relentlessly, and the infield support behind him was just about air-tight...