Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, Japan had gained a potent friend in hostile business territory. How valuable this friendship might prove was indicated last week when Dr. Murchison urged U. S. importers to handle Japanese quota goods "without hesitation...
...pounds sterling each for study at Oxford University during the coming academic year, it was announced last night by the American Trustees of the Charles and Julia Henry Fund. The fellowships were established by Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
...became suspect after he protested the King's execution. U. S. Ambassador Gouverneur Morris, paying off old grudges, was chiefly responsible for Paine's ten months in prison, his close escape from the guillotine, but it was Washington whom Paine blamed, accusing him of sacrificing their friendship for a treaty with the hated English. It pleased Paine when Napoleon praised The Rights of Man, said to him, "A statue of gold ought to be erected to you in every city in the universe." But when he discovered the wily Frenchman merely wished him to lead an armed raid...
...children and was very much the head of her family. She had a whim of iron, and it was her strongest whim never to appear in public, never to be at home to anyone but her own kin (Rubinstein was apparently the lone exception). As her epistolary friendship with Tchaikovsky grew, her commissions got more munificent, her language ever more affectionate, until finally she was supporting Tchaikovsky and their letters to each other were more platonic than respectable...
...Trotsky are always spitting in each other's face, but at an Oriental bazaar the rug dealers think nothing of a little saliva-and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings. If, by invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were no Trotsky, or if Trotsky should...