Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hair brush until he finally produced a new tulip all his own. After a tour of duty as Ambassador to Moscow, Koki Hirota's big chance came last September. Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida had seen his country through the Jehol invasion. He was tired. 68, and getting deaf. Premier Saito picked Koki Hirota to succeed him. Observers called it "simply the substitution of a vigorous and unspent man for one who is weary." Since the growing power of Japanese militarists forced the resignation of the last truly international-minded Foreign Minister, Kijuro Shidehara, in 1931, the basis...
...Hornbeck, Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs at the State Department. Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito visited Undersecretary of State William Phillips, while Secretary of State Hull called on President Roosevelt. In Tokyo British Ambassador Sir Francis Lindley dropped in at the Foreign Office and next day handsome, deaf U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew went ambling around himself. Harvardman, socialite, longtime Ambassador to Turkey with two daughters married into the service, Ambassador Grew is generally considered the ablest of U. S. career diplomats. He remained closeted for a long time with Foreign Minister Koki Hirota last week...
...paintings for the Musée Napoleon in Paris. But when Wellington (whom he painted) restored the Bourbons and Ferdinand VII took the throne, Goya retired from the capital to a village near a church he had decorated with court characters and street walkers. Nearly blind as well as deaf, Goya produced another series of fantastic etchings, painted a Saturn devouring his children. Ferdinand, who was trying to restore the Inquisition's power, was glad when Goya asked leave...
...statistics are cold and the same cry from the same voices soon falls on deaf ears. Last week educators tried a new tack when they got many a famed citizen to take up their cause at a "Citizens Conference on the Crisis in Education," sponsored by Ohio State University at Columbus...
...newshawks. "What did I do? I took a pencil and on the back of an envelope I wrote, 'What do you want?' and handed it to a big guy leading the crowd. He read it, then turned around and said, 'My God, boys, he's deaf and dumb...