Word: conveys
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...itching to get her fingers in Hitler's hair. When Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the first important application of U. S. radio's self-imposed censorship code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view of the N. A. B. code, that anything but reportorial matter would be in the public interest." Next...
...William Phillips found small King Vittorio Emmanuele III when he went to deliver Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt's peace appeal last week. Personally insignificant but institutionally of as great importance to Italians as George VI is to Britons, King Vittorio Emmanuele thanked Mr. Roosevelt for his idea, promised to convey it to his Government. He had not far to go. Northward on the same train with Mr. Phillips had traveled Son-in-Law Ciano, ostensibly just to get a Collar of the Annunciata from His Majesty for his "brilliant" work as Foreign Minister. The Count also returned to Rome...
...make the outlook even less cheery, Dick Harlow was absent from spring practice for three weeks due to illness, and the spring session was further retarded by inclement weather. With an ambitious schedule, it loks tough for the 1939 Varsity. But statistics on paper don't convey the whole story . . . the Harlow system and a determined group of Jayvees and Yardlings should combine to give the Crimson a late-starting but winning football team...
...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...
...George Washington. Secret Service men combed the length of Pennsylvania Avenue, interviewing shopkeepers and householders along the line of the arriving procession, and 50,000 soldiers, sailors, marines, Washington police and firemen were told off to wall the streets. The destroyer Warrington was chosen by the Navy to convey Their Majesties from Sandy Hook to the Battery after detraining at Red Bank on their way from Washington to the New York World's Fair...