Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father and the village of North Tarrytown, N. Y. Although it resulted in his favor, it left my father a feeling of hurt and injury that I think never quite disappeared." Whether or not he expected to end feeling hurt or injured, Mr. Rockefeller six years ago took court action to have the 1934 assessed valuation ($2,619, 890) on his North Tarrytown property, including a corner of his vast Pocantico Hills estate reduced...
...Janizary Tom Corcoran, whom Raymond Moley introduced to palace councils, appears as a perennial sophomore. Author Moley blandly notes a private talk with Corcoran. Said Corcoran, explaining how he would get around Franklin Roosevelt's implied promise to put the late Joe Robinson on the Supreme Court: ". . . There aren't any binding promises in politics. There isn't any binding law. You just know that the strongest side wins...
...Bologna, it was announced in Rome that Italian garrisons were being withdrawn from the Dodecanese Islands off Greece, a gesture in the Allies' favor. A few days earlier Italy and Greece had both moved back from the Greco-Albanian frontier. Italy sent an Ambassador, Giuseppe Bastianini, to the Court of St. James's, where she has had none since June. Italy made no protest last week when the British stopped an Italian ship at Gibraltar and confiscated cargoes destined for Germany. Italian trade boomed, with export orders far above normal. A new airline began operating from Naples...
...speech of welcome, the U. S. got busy backstage. Casually, as if its perfect timing were just a happy coincidence, the New York World's Fair put on a Pan American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, colorful Latin and good American, who called Pan America "a democracy of democracies," said...
...further, more realistic precaution against "Dutch courage," junior officers in the Royal Air Force are allowed only a "strictly limited" amount of wine. Bars in flying schools are now closed all day, treating is banned in messes and drinks are forbidden in private rooms. Penalty for breaking these rules: court-martial...