Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edward Mandell House, 79, confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson; of old age; in Manhattan. "Colonel" House was author of an anonymous novel, Philip Deu: Administrator, published in 1912 about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept...
...publisher but knew of this profitable friendship between two stubborn individualists, and two years ago David Stern's New York Post flatly described Mr. Block as a "Hearst stooge." But since 1931 Mr. Block has reduced his holdings to Newark, Pittsburgh and Toledo, says that what he runs he owns. So Mr. Block's grey fringe bristled when Robert S. Allen, sharpshooting Washington columnist, wrote last September in the Nation...
With the greatest possible reserve, seeing that the Soviet Union is linked in friendship with the French Republic by treaty, last week's Moscow proposals for an anti-Fascist conference were "accepted in principle" by Paul-Boncour. To French journalists he made it unmistakable that Paris will not act in the matter without London, which had already reacted negatively. When Premier Juan Negrin of desperate Leftist Spain went flying to Paris and begged Messrs. Blum & Paul-Boncour for aid last week he was cold-shouldered...
...minute address of Orator Hitler, who usually speaks for some two hours and a half, struck these keynotes: 1) friendship with Mussolini, which drew the loudest Reichstag cheers; 2) denunciation of "Schuschnigg who possessed no legal right of existence!" which drew loudest boos and cries of "Schuschnigg shame!"; 3) announcement that the German Reichstag will dissolve and Germans as well as Austrians will vote in the coming plebiscite April 10, following which a new Reichstag will be seated; 4) declaration that "Germany wants only peace! . . . She is ready, however, to give her last man for honor and existence!";* 5) high...
Another impediment is the law of property in corpses. They belong to the next of kin or friendship. When Dr. Green applied to San Francisco's Health Commissioner Jacob Casson Geiger and Coroner Thomas Byers Woods Leland for cooperation, they reminded him that peeling a cornea from a body was precisely like performing an autopsy: it requires written permission of the corpse's owners...