Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign to unify China. "He is too matter of fact to be good company,"commented Upton Close, who knew Wu well, "but Wu Pei-fu is one of the few men in China who cannot be bought."Last week the Marshal was available in Peking. If he has really come to terms with Japan (and in 1932 he wrote to Emperor Hirohito suggesting a Chinese-Japanese "conference of elder statesmen"for peace), the Great Powers may soon be tempted to consider that China has been given a central government which is an acceptable alternative to the Government of Chiang Kaishek...
...Angeles, John M. Jones, who went to Hollywood to be an actor and remained to sell $1,795 Aeroncas, got into his own tiny demonstrator (50 h.p., 90 m.p.h., 672 lb. unloaded), took off with 876 lb. of gasoline and did not come down until he got to New York. It took him 30 hours and 37 minutes and he set a new non-stop distance record for planes of this size. Total operating cost: $30.91. Cheapest bus fare for the trip...
...Where is this shortening of meals going to end?" cried dramatic Emile Aymoz and cast his eyes hopefully toward the revival Atlantic, will come answered, from "My belief America! . is . ." that a revival will come from America...
Cotton Bowl. Dallas is a Johnny-come-lately. Its Cotton Bowl is only one year old. To shove it into the spotlight this year, Dallas promoters planned a double-header Bowl game (one the day before and one the day after New Year's) between four of the five top teams of the country. But when Texas Christian, of neighboring but envious Fort Worth, refused to come to its party, notwithstanding a proposed junket to the New York World's Fair next year as an added inducement, the Cotton Bowl Association announced that it would stage only...
...nach Osten." Recent events have only emphasized the importance to Germany of maintaining the divided control there is at present; for the Reich, barred by a hostile Rumania from access to the Black Sea, is now trying to make Yugoslavia her vassal and Mediterranean outlet. German interests have thus come into conflict with the Italian dream of a "Mare Nostrum"; and a direct result of this clash has been the French Agreement which aims to maintain the present "status quo" in the Mediterranean...