Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statesman Paredes answered his San Franciscan countrymen with restraint : He believed the judge had not meant to call all Filipinos savages-"but there are savages everywhere." Finally he urged his com patriots to "avoid occasions for rebuke" and sent a copy of his reply to Judge Lazarus accompanied by a note saying, "I cannot believe that you had in any way in tended to refer to my people as a whole...
Carried away by his 99% election responsibility, the Realmleader announced that he would call the new Reichstag and shout his counterproposals at it at the same moment they were being delivered in London. His Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels told him the world had had enough Nazi stump-speaking for the present. A 19-day "oratorical armistice" was thereupon declared for all Germany. Into the silence came bad news. The British had decided to fulfill their legal duty under the Locarno Pact, to engage in military staff conversations with France and Belgium to prepare for possible "unprovoked...
...table tennists are enraged when people call their pastime "Ping Pong," a trade name against which the U. S. Table Tennis Association, currently headed by Cartoonist Carl Zeisberg of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, revolted three years ago. Table Tennis Topics, official magazine of the Association, will not print the words ping pong, uses the scorn ful abbreviation ''P.P." when forced to refer to it. In Europe the game has more prestige than it enjoys in the U. S. Five thousand spectators watched Miss Aarons win the world's championship. Crowds almost as large cheered her in London...
Before Phillips celebrated what it was pleased to call its "Third-of-a-Century" anniversary last year, the company was primarily a vegetable packer with soup as a sideline. Publicity was largely confined to the personal activities of Colonel Phillips, who is a sedulous hunter, a determined Republican and a firm believer in the virtues of Horatio Alger. On one occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized...
...annual Japanese war scare comes just before our big army and navy appropriation bills are laid before Congress. The munitions racket plunders the public funds; but when you or I call it plundering, we are told that we ought to be deported, sent back to Moscow...