Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, 54. Criminal law was Professor Sayre's course at Harvard Law School. Counseling King Rama VI of Siam on foreign relations (1923-25) gave him grounding in Oriental affairs, King Rama called him "Phya Kalyam Maitri" (The Beautiful in Friendship). Lately he has worked with Secretary Hull on reciprocal trade treaties, with Senator Tydings on the act to cushion the Philippines' severance from the U. S. in 1946. His salary will jump from $9,000 to $18,000 (plus fat perquisites...
...action after the sinking of the Panay convinced them there was no danger of intervention; the dispatch to Japan this year of the U. S. cruiser Astoria with the ashes of the late Ambassador Hirosi Saito was played up by the Japanese press as a symbol of U. S. friendship and understanding. What sympathy the U. S. had for China was minimized as a vague feeling for the underdog; few contemplated the possibility that the U.S. might one day become exasperated over the increasing number of incidents involving U.S. property and nationals...
...Angeles Evening News, "almost painfully exquisite." They were a Chinese girl, a Japanese man who, after speaking their pieces, shook hands, stood silently smiling. The Bowl audience, predominantly middleclass, was equally pleased when Charles Copperman, boss of the Imperial Valley Teamsters' Union (A. F. of L.), vowed his friendship for G. G. Bennett, president of the Imperial Valley branch of the reactionary Associated Farmers...
...bosses, Senator Thomas Staples Martin, and then sent to the Senate for a career that lasted 22 years. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's main props in that chamber during the idealistic War years and the bitter years that followed. He wangled naval appropriations, formed a lasting friendship with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, became the biggest Big Navy man in the Democratic Party. When he took office as Secretary, Washington's admirals breathed easier...
...second greatest worry in Sonja Henie's life, according to other people is her unmarried state. Her friends contend that her most publicized "romance," with Tyrone Power, was just that. Her less publicized friendship for Jeff Dickson* ended when she left Europe for the U. S. in 1936. She gave him back his jewelry. Her parents regarded with approval middle-aged Clifford Jeapes (pronounced Geeps), British cinemagnate who gave Sonja her first (unsuccessful) screen test. Romantic friends incline to the belief that the only man Sonja Henie has ever really been interested in was Jack Dunn, the handsome...