Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word for this event was cooperation. In the democracies the final mistaken hangover from the idea that the Japanese were little monkeys, just playing at the game of mankind, was the idea that the Japanese were little lackeys, just playing Germany's game. There was no basis in fact for the impression that Adolf Hitler had ordered, or blackmailed, or even wheedled Japan into its southward drive for riches. Japan wanted to be rich. Japan had begun the process of solving problems with the sharp edge of a sword back in 1931, two years before Hitler came to power...
...event was his talk with Hitler. "I felt," he said afterward, "that in the mind of Hitler there was much of spiritual matters, transcending material plans. When I met the Führer he said that since boyhood he had been attracted by Japan. He read carefully reports of Japan's victory over Russia when he was only 17 years old and was impressed by Japan's astonishing strength...
Probably the only international sport event that will be held in the U.S. this year took place last week at Lake Placid, N.Y. between ten lady Kanonen representing the U.S. and Canada...
...gave U.S. stations strict ratings on local enterprise, resulted in gey sers of protest, including a four-page lament from NBC's then President Merlin Hall Aylesworth charging "commercial libel." Landry responded with two more surveys at six -month intervals, after which the survey became an annual event (TIME, Dec. 29). Landry's conclusion about...
Coincidental with the drill, Peter Mcgowan '42, chairman of the Adams House Committee, announced that plans were being discussed to hang black curtains and Venetian blinds over the Adams House Library and Common Room so that students could study in the event of a real air raid