Word: buckely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Examinations will be played down in the determining of the William H. Bliss Prizes next year, Paul H. Buck, associate professor of History and recently appointed chairman of the Committee on Extra-Curricular Reading in American History, announced last night together with the names of the nominees for the prizes this spring...
This information was the more interesting because last week Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman-after weeks of outcry by friends of peace and of China, ranging from Elder Statesman Henry Stimson to Author Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck-laid before the Senate a joint resolution authorizing President Roosevelt to embargo all exports (except agricultural products) to Japan, and all imports from her. Reason: the Japanese Government flagrantly violated the Nine Power Treaty, the most solemn treaty ever entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought...
Unlike many thousands of U. S. citizens who visited New York City last week, they gave only a fleeting glance to its World's Fair. They heard Pearl Buck lecture on China at Town Hall, Columbia's Professor Clyde R. Miller lecture on propaganda at Lincoln School. To relax, they sailed in a yacht, saw Pins and Needles and a show at Radio City Music Hall, where they went backstage to pose for pictures with the Rockettes...
...Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats and Mice at Home, and the tales her Chinese nurse told her are shrewd, imaginative, lively, at least partly support Pearl Buck's statement that "I should not be surprised one day to see an actual genius declare itself in those clear eyes of hers...
...second boat the positions are as follows: stroke, Bristol Hall; No. 7, James E. Walker; No 6, "Buck" Anderson; No. 5, Gerald A. Fulham; No. 4, Alan Miller; No. 3, Lewis H. Spence; No. 2, Edward C. Perkins; bow, William T. Emmet 2nd; and cox John w. Straus...