Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, expressed by the Navy. In Shanghai, the chief of the Navy's Press Department. Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, announced that Japanese aerial bombardments would continue. He expressed "satisfaction with the progress of military operations" to date and assured that "our aviators are doing their best to avoid hitting non-combatants...
...avoid a fight on the Senate floor it was agreed that the bill should be rewritten in conference. Meanwhile, Speaker Bankhead deferred naming the House conferees until this week. Thus it was assured that the compromise reached in conference should be dumped back into the House and Senate just before adjournment, when Congressmen will be too tired to fight hard or argue long...
...Hopkins in my judgment did not volunteer that statement in order to influence a vote in Iowa, but simply made it in reply to an inquiry from a newspaper man. The Senate will realize how difficult sometimes it is to avoid answering a newspaper inquiry...
...soon all Washington learned just how hard Harry Hopkins had tried to "avoid" his predicament...
...till, WPA's sleuths went to work. Last week they announced a shortage of $600 in one theatre, $300 in another. The investigators suspected that much more money had been pilfered by ticket takers and sellers who connived to sell the same tickets more than once, thus avoid discrepancies in their records. Shocked, WPA decided henceforth to have periodical audits...