Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dapper Grover Whalen, president of the New York World's Fair scheduled to open on the Flushing Meadows April 30, 1939, stepped aboard the Normandie last week. He was bound for the International Bureau of Expositions in Paris to get his Fair officially recognized. The Bureau consists of 22 nations who got together in 1928, decided that there were too many international fairs, agreed to sanction only one a year. The U. S. is not a member of the Bureau and Mr. Whalen's visit at this time is only a matter of form, but the Bureau...
...Queen Mary about to sail from Manhattan to attend the Coronation of the world's greatest surviving King, George VI. At sailing time, however, it looked as if a petty king of U. S. labor were going to have the best of puissant George VI, for the Coronation-bound passengers were aboard ship but their Coronation costumes were dock-bound by a strike of some 300 baggage wallopers called out by President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association...
...Coronation passenger crop aboard the Queen Mary, Cunard White Star acted quickly. A telephone call to Montreal, and Independent Union longshoremen were shooed off the Alaunia and the Andania loading there. Mr. Ryan called off his strike and within a few minutes 1,800 happy travelers were bound for the Coronation. Within two hours Independent Union men were back at work on the Alaunia and Andania, and I.L.A. was again out on strike in Manhattan. A serious strike was threatened with Cunard White Star (and also Furness-Withy Lines) caught between the millstones of warring Labor factions. In two days...
...last week that policy was fulfilled. The French and British Governments, making a virtue of necessity both agreed to release Belgium from he promise to defend Britain and France from attack, but maintained their pledge, from motives of self-interest, to fight if Belgim is invaded. Apart from being bound by the Covenant of the League of Nations, Belgium is thus virtually as "neutral...
Though the man who will be crowned on May 12 may not have the "charm" of Edward Windsor, he promises to be as duty-bound and soundly virtuous as George V, one of whose homely maxims was "Teach me never to cry for the moon nor over split milk." Growing up under the careful eye of her grandmother, the heiress-presumptive promises to become a woman well equipped to be a second Queen Elizabeth. Such material for the throne, coupled with the fact that Premier Baldwin's government seems to have sharpened its democratic mace against Bolshevik and Fascist competition...