Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solicitor, and Robert D. Kohn as his director of PWA housing. Madam Secretary Perkins has two able Jewish helpers, Isador Lubin Jr. as labor statistician and Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. as solicitor. Lawyer Wyzanski has spent most of his 28 years winning prizes: as a high school boy, from the Daughters of the American Revolution; as a student at Phillips Exeter, the Walter Hines Page, Merrill and Teschemacher prizes (all in one year) and a four-year scholarship at Harvard; as a junior at Harvard the New York Times's intercollegiate current events contest ($750). He was serving...
Detectives soon heard a story that Michel Henriot, 23, married less than two years, had insured his wife's life for 800,000 francs. A few hours of questioning and Michel Henriot confessed. The boy's father, cousin of Deputy Philippe Henriot is prosecutor for the department of Lorient. Pale and shaken by the news he resigned, announcing that he would undertake the defense...
...that even in 19^9 idia had a modern, highly efficient domestic cotton industry capable of supplv-mg all but 25% of her needs. That 25% was the prize, and in 1929 Britain got twice as much of it as did Japan. Then came Depression, the Gandhi anti-British boy, depreciation of the yen. Japanese cotton sales to India rose "and rose until by 1932 they not only passed Britain but were cutting seriously into the sales of the Indian mills. In 1933 the Indian Government increased the tariff on foreign cotton goods, which was mostly Japanese...
...army officers. Koki Hirota is still his good friend, but he has grown smoother and wiser. After studying at the Imperial University in Tokyo, Koki Hirota attempted to enter the diplomatic service. He flunked miserably.* As a consolation Enjiro Yamaza of the foreign office Political Affairs bureau got the boy an under-clerkship in the Japanese consulate in Seoul, Korea, coached him for a second try at the examinations. Koki Hirota's chief in Korea was young Katsuji Debuchi, lately Ambassador to Washington. The two have been fast friends ever since. After finally passing his examinations Koki Hirota spent...
...communism; the later was more an more interested in Russia, a Russia which could build the Dneiper Dam. The author is always of two minds. He is sceptical as to the effects of propaganda throttling school books, cinemas, and the press. Children learn English to the tune, "Little American boy is hungry. . American boy wishes he could come to Russia, where he can got enough to cat." He doubts whether under such a system there can be great music, drama, fiction, and poetry...