Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young King, whose father & mother always traveled by special train, had a single royal car hitched to the regular London-Glasgow express one night last week and sped north to the metropolis which is fullest of British Communists. Canny fellows, many of these Scotsmen are like Japanese Communists in viewing the Reigning House as their possible ally against the Upper Classes in a last-ditch social upheaval, or at any rate as safe custodians for immense wealth which never ceases to pile up and ultimately may be shared for the greatest good of the greatest number in the United Kingdom...
...answer to what his personal views on the oath bill were the Student Council representative said that he considered himself unqualified to express them. To the query as to whether he was a member of the Student Council, the First Marshall responded quietly in the affirmative...
...printed record contained General Hagood's testimony but not the questions put to him by members of the subcommittee. Thus the impression was given that General Hagood made a stump speech, volunteered nearly everything, whereas the Committee had, as a matter of fact, led him on to express his opinion in full. Two days later the Press published the testimony and General Hagood's "stage money" made headlines. The General sent another telegram to several members of Congress: "I am deeply shocked at being accused of criticizing the President. No criticism could have been intended...
...State Department, for all the erudition of its Far East Section, knew nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph Clark Grew as though he had been U. S. Ambassador to the Moon instead of Ambassador to Japan. The Department busied itself writing a note to express the grief of the Roosevelt Administration at the death of Premier Okada...
...British institutions, which refused the invitation, not for lack of scholastic respect, but because they insisted on dragging politics in, lost an excellent chance to express their disapproval by honoring an institution which, as they well know, has opposed the same policies they condemn. But politics should not enter...