Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience last week the Prime Minister chose that most tactful and sympathetic of men, President Roosevelt's grey and graceful little "Disarmament Ambassador," Norman H. Davis. The chat at No. 10 between Scot MacDonald and Tennesseean Davis made clear that if the scheduled 1935 Naval Conference is held at all, it will be not a Disarmament but an Armament Conference. Somewhat pathetically the Prime Minister uttered Earl Beatty's arguments which are, in a nutshell, that Japan's new truculence and her seizure of Manchukuo make it imperative to strengthen the Royal Navy...
...shoot at. Princeton's tradition of public service goes back to Alumnus-Professor-President Woodrow Wilson, to Grover Cleveland, longtime trustee and lecturer, and finally to the great years between 1769 and 1812. From exactly 1,000 men whom Princeton graduated in those years the U. S. chose one President (James Madison), two Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr and George Mifflin Dallas), six Continental Congressmen, 31 U. S. Senators, 48 U. S. Representatives, 21 State Governors, four U. S. Cabinet members, seven U. S. and State Supreme Court Justices. That took 43 years. But by 1944 President Dodds...
...head the ballet school Impresario Merola wisely chose Adolph Bolm who used to dance in the peerless Diaghilev troupe with Karsavina, Mordkin, Nijinsky. What the school has accomplished in less than two years was demonstrated one night last week before all the Californians the opera house could hold. The dancing they saw was expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane...
Thus administration of the new law and the five men President Roosevelt will appoint to the Commission became of prime importance to most businesses. Under the power granted it by Congress the Commission could, if it chose, alter the entire face of U. S. business...
...Book, By this point readers may begin to see why Author Mann, with all of Europe's complicated culture to embroider on, chose rather to go back to Asia to wake a slumbering legend. Originally attracted by the charm and the tantalizing brevity of this "natural narrative" of Jacob and his sons, Mann soon saw greater & greater depths in the story, an unsuspected universality in its theme. Readers will expect much more than a refurbished narrative of the tale of Joseph and they will not be disappointed. Author Mann has woven the threads of myth, history and fiction into...