Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Richard Crane, 80, world traveler, onetime president of Chicago's potent Crane Co. (plumbing), onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. At the age of 20, Charles Crane decided to travel "seriously," spent three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk...
...pretend that I have had time to examine with care every phrase in [Hitler's speech]. ... It touched upon a great many topics and covered a wide field," said the Prime Minister, in a voice so low that diplomats in the gallery had to crane to catch his words. But Mr. Chamberlain had apparently taken time enough to comb out of Hitler's formless harangue every conciliatory crumb of comfort it contained. These he singled out for special praise. "I very definitely got the impression," the Prime Minister went on, "that it was not the speech...
...Frances Crane Leatherbee, of the Chicago plumbing Cranes. Her father, onetime Minister to China, was a potent backer of Father MasaRyk; her brother, Richard Teller Crane 2nd. was first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. The Jan Masaryks are now divorced...
...summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer and looks as clumsy as Ichabod Crane on a horse. Johnny Adams has an extraordinary flair for getting the best out of the cheapest plater...
Last July, with an endowment from Crane Co.'s Cornelius Crane, an amateur anthropologist, Count Alfred opened his institute in Chicago to teach General Semantics to educators and maladjusted people. Meanwhile, in about a dozen schools, colleges and hospitals, his students also had begun to teach the new science. Last week was published a collection of papers reporting their accomplishments...