Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no formal application blank for the scholarships, but students wishing to be considered should list the amount of their April term bill, their approximate resources, the amount they are receiving from University loan or beneficiary aid funds, whether they have a scholarship or student employment position, what activities they had participated in, their group in the rank list, and any other information they think might be of value to the committee...
When someone describing himself as "Mr. Weston, Under Secretary of State telephoned the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan last fortnight and asked that 50 blank passports be sent to him at a midtown hotel, agents of the Department of Justice followed the shipment. Well they might, for the Under Secretary of State is Mr. Sumner Welles. The trail led from the hotel to a bar, to a brush-headed young man named Guenther Gustave Rumrich. Mr. Rumrich-born in Chicago to Austrian parents 27 years ago and a deserter from the U. S. Army-was reported to have wanted...
...interested in a possible agreement between the U. S. and Britain already bound by the 1936 Naval Treaty and two of the "democracies" which Franklin Roosevelt has intimated may eventually have to take the totalitarian powers over their knees. In response to direct questioning, Admiral Leahy had denied point-blank the existence of such an agreement. So had Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee. So had Secretary of State Hull. At the week's beginning, Senator Johnson had declared himself entirely satisfied. Suddenly he changed his mind, stormily asked Mr. Hull for a further definition of foreign...
...join in the "gentlemen's agreement." Last week the only fact that emerged from a great cloud of secrecy was that the Earl would do his negotiating with the Steel Exporters Association of America, an organization of big steel concerns. The Earl of Dudley was asked point-blank if he wanted to arrange price-fixing. Said he coyly but mistakenly: "You have laws here to prevent that sort of thing, you know...
...over a month, enough shiny brass blank cartridges for a 101-gun salute have been piled by the saluting batteries of every Dutch army post from Amsterdam to Bali. They were to signal that Crown Princess Juliana had given the House of Orange its first male heir in generations. Last week the batteries finally boomed out but the Government saved 50 shells from each, for like her mother and grandmother before her, Crown Princess Juliana's first baby was a 51-gun, blue-eyed, fair-haired girl...