Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only newsy answer that he gave to any question served to bring the subject back to the pressing but rather more comfortable topic of foreign relations. Asked in cleverly-framed words whether he considered that holding a national referendum on declaring war would be consistent with representative government, he answered, flatly...
...nearly two years a lithe, quick-moving, tousle-headed U. S. citizen has been nosing around Europe's airways, his half-hostile eyes alert to see every new aviation development. Anxious to honor the world's most famous flyer, foreign governments and companies withheld little from Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, reserve Army flyer and unsalaried technical adviser of Pan American Airways. Returning fortnight ago "for Christmas," Colonel Lindbergh landed with probably more complete information of Europe's air plans, particularly those of Imperial Airways, than any individual on this side of the Atlantic. Last week, after three...
...exits of most deported foreign correspondents are quiet and quick. Quite a different affair, however, was the expulsion from Yugoslavia's capital last week of Hubert D. Harrison, chief Balkan correspondent for Reuters, British news agency, and part-time reporter for the New York Times. As Mr. Harrison's train pulled out of Belgrade, he got a Channel-swimmer's ovation from a noisy crowd of fellow journalists, students and well-known politicians. Mr. Harrison's exile was in itself unique. It had to do with Mickey Mouse...
...nephew, King Michael. The Mickey Mouse strip is distributed by Hearst King Features Syndicate, one of whose clients is the Belgrade Politika. First Regent of Yugoslavia today is Prince Paul, first cousin once removed of King Peter, a minor, an analogy to the Mickey Mouse comic which few foreign papers failed to draw when fortnight ago Mickey Mouse was suppressed from Politika by the Government for two days. Unfortunately for Reporter Harrison, his story implied permanent suppression...
...Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide a new Standard Oil tanker. Name: William H. Berg...