Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles B. Goodspeed, the G. O. P.'s national treasurer and John Hamilton's good friend, they elected Hill Blackett, 47, advertising tycoon (Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc.), who handled radio time for the Landon campaign. Announced Committeeman Blackett last week: "Any man has an equal chance as far as I'm concerned...
Demands. Meanwhile, the four Chinese "murderers" were all but forgotten as the Japanese military made it clear that they were out to eliminate British, and possibly other, interests in China. Hereafter, a military spokesman at Tientsin said, Britain must be prepared to "cooperate" with Japan in the Far East, must drop her "pro-Chiang Kaishek" policy...
...Ranh Bay off the coast of Indo-China, French warships were maneuvering one bright morning last week. The submarines Phénix and L'Espoir submerged to make a sham attack on the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. After a half-hour L'Espoir knifed to the surface, but no one saw the Phénix, and probably no one ever will. For a day and a half planes and warships crisscrossed the sea, searching in vain for the crippled vessel. And then the Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families...
...till tomorrow, the next day, for ten years. Seichas seemed to have taken over the leaden-footed Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations last week as talks between British special negotiator William Strang, British Ambassador Sir William Seeds and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dragged on day after day, added up, as far as the anxiously waiting world could see, to nothing...
...forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance of a silver coffin from a shrine in Etshinhuro, Mongolia, which was carried with pomp and fire crackers through the Great Wall on its way to a hiding place in Western China far from Japanese raiders. Inside, insisted the A. P., was the dust of the Great Khan, the "perfect warrior and the Scourge...