Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight than Prime Minister Chamberlain announced Britain's appeasing recognition of the "special requirements" of Japan's armies in China. This seeming default by the greatest of the Democracies which Mr. Roosevelt wanted to support enabled California's white-crested, Isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson to crow...
...Secretary of the Navy Swanson last week delayed the Neutrality war between President and Congress. It also opened up a new political vista. Mentioned to fill the Navy vacancy, or the No. 2 job there after moving up Acting Secretary Charles Edison, was Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, newly famed for smacking down villainous Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City (TIME, April 17, et seq.). Mr. Stark, an Annapolis graduate, is now high on the White House's list of 1940 prospects. Calling him for duty at Washington would be one way of building him up nationally...
...schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored crow's-feet on the front panels of gowns instead of velvet hood trimmings to distinguish separate orders of graduates...
Critics of the Munich settlement have had ample opportunity to crow in the last few days. Apparently, their worst fears are being realized. But there has been too much denunciation of Chamberlain and not enough realization of one fundamental fact: time is on the side of the democracies. If, last September, Germany and Italy had at least three times as many effective fighting planes as England and France combined; if Germany's monthly output was greater in almost the same proportion; and if, at the same time, England had plans to double her fleet and equal Germany in planes...
...Word slips through from New York that Teddy Wilson's new band will open at the Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started the breakdown of the Jim Crow traditions in regard to colored musicians playing with white, and it now looks as though a mixed band may have some chance for success. . . . Jimmy Dorsey's newest disc, "It's All Yours" has a vocal by Helen O'Connell that, despite the handicap of bad key, shows much improvement. Catch...