Word: gave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greeted informally coffee-colored, short Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, in Washington to get credits for works projects. French-speaking President Vincent, now serving a second five-year term,* was referred to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who gave a stag dinner in his honor at Welles's Oxon Hill, Md. mansion. Mr. Vincent did not get to see Secretary Hull, nor was he officially welcomed with pomp and display. Said one Washington official: "Well, you can't get those five tanks out every...
...Chinese counterattacked and fought so furiously that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave them a bonus of $20,000, a lot of money in North China...
Several months ago the Japanese Army gave a general named Kawamoto the sole job of persuading Marshal Wu to play puppet. Learning that the good Marshal was a great student of Buddhist classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
Fourteen students attended the meeting, five representing organizations which gave their official support to the formation of such a committee, and the rest as delegates from other interested groups...
...Captain Charley Lutz, the hoopsters put up a good fight, but superior shooting and a decided advantage in getting the ball off the backboard gave the Bruins a well-earned victory...