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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hurley said: "We have suffered long from their tantrums. We have blushed for shame when they acted up before company as tantrum children will do in any family. Years ago they established the crank school of economics ; latterly they have founded the tirade school of journalism; they are now en gaged in popularizing the ostrich school of strategy...
Campaign by Diplomacy. In 1937 the second China war began and Mr. Matsuoka was made Cabinet advisory councilor in Prince Fumimaro Konoye's first Premiership. In March 1939 he again made one of his sudden resignations en route to better things, and reappeared in July 1940 as Foreign Minister. As an ardent expansionist and strong supporter of the Prince's plan for totalitarian one-party rule, he was Prince Konoye's choice...
...dancers, 4,000 spectators, folded. It never got its hoped-for weekly attendance of about 30,000, finally ran into a scorching weekend, and one night only 1,500 customers appeared. Among the backers who shared the rumored $85,000 loss: Terminal Taxicab President Dan Arnstein, now en route to China...
...this was mixed. In Chungking, the people already had visions of hordes of American planes darkening the skies. The new airfields-cleared and rolled by the forced labor of thousands of peasants-were ready for U.S.-made bombers. Even Flying Fortresses were said, by Chungking gossip, to be en route. Teahouse strategists pundited: four of these "flying blockhouses" with great walls around them and high watch towers will be anchored in the air at four corners of the city to protect the capital...
When the Monterey docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to be, while the Brunots were extremely retiring. The General said nothing of his purposes and few of the Monterey's passengers so much as knew his rank...