Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rings, one for himself and one for Franklin Roosevelt. In turn Henry Wallace produced a luscious rarity for the Governor's wife: fat strawberries from Alma Ata, Siberia. After two days he was off on the 1,500-mile trip to the key stop of his swing around Asia...
...must give up her plans of Asiatic domination or fight. The U.S. was aggressive against the aggressors. But Minister Lyttelton's bumbling word "provoke" gave Axis propagandists a field day. Immediately Jap Domei was on the air, cackling : "The real cause of the war in Greater East Asia is so clear that even the British are unable to conceal the truth...
...close its thirty-fifth season, the HDC has just completed something of a record in that it was one of the first collegiate dramatic groups founded for the express purpose of presenting undergraduate written plays. When the stock of these ran out, it turned to Europe and Asia, bringing to the American stage for the first time many plays which would never have reached it through professional channels. Some of these have gone on to Broadway, as have numerous HDC members. This season saw Paul Robeson made a member of the honorary advisory committee at a tea in his honor...
...Asia and South America Dr. Mott pioneered in training native-born Y workers, saw them strengthen the Y's influence in countries like China, where seven of the ten members of one Chiang Kai-shek cabinet were former Y workers...
...Learn in Asia. Calvert methods are a mixture of many traditions. Earnest, friendly Headmaster Edward Woodman Brown (Princeton '23) is no "progressive" educator. A tall and talented tennist, he looks older than his 42 years. He stresses discipline and English composition in a special Calvert up-&-down script. Brown is proud that Calvert has helped make life bearable for U.S. children in crowded Jap concentration camps like that in Shantung's Wei-hsien. The Calvert method was used there for six months by Rochester's Mrs. Frederick G. Scovel, wife of a medical missionary. Repatriated...