Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pure-hearted Frank Murphy announced: "I personally don't want to be on a ticket of any kind." Opined Columnist Raymond Clapper, who has excellent Administration sources: ". . . The Attorney General is running too hard for the Vice Presidency . . . [There is a] hint in certain quarters . . . that [he] forget the ballyhoo and buckle down to work...
Last month American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. in San Francisco promoted ten of its waterfront clerks from daily to monthly pay ($160). Last week 7,500 men were idle and a general Pacific Coast maritime strike was imminent because of this seemingly appreciative gesture...
Right Address. Although the British could not diplomatically recognize him, the logical man to have dealt with was General Gen Sugiyama, commander of the North China Army. Former War Minister, a thorough soldier who believes in "action before words," General Sugiyama (along with others of the military caste) feels himself responsible only to the Emperor. Fifty-nine years old, he was once a military attache at Paris, at another time a delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1926. The prattle of diplomats, the explanations of foreign offices, the fine points of parliamentarians are not, however, for him. Last week...
...most listened-to of Arab nationalist leaders, and Great Britain, most respected of Western powers in the Near East, were on the outs. The Nazis, in fact, wanted it believed that His Majesty was so exasperated by British "broken promises" in the-Near East that hereafter Arab nationalists in general and Ibn Saud in particular would come to Rome and Berlin for help and guidance. Although a discreet silence was kept over what, if anything, Führer Hitler promised Khalid al Hud and vice versa, it was news simply that they had talked. When the German Foreign Office mouthpiece...
...Haifa, Palestine, 18 Arabs were killed, 24 wounded, by a time bomb exploding in a vegetable market. British authorities believed Jews, probably of the Revisionist organization, the culprits. Arabs planned a general strike, while members of Haifa's Christian community asked the British High Commissioner to protect the Arab population. Jewish communal leaders hastened to condemn the "dastardly murder of innocent Arabs, women and children." and Chairman David Ben Gurion, of the Palestine Jewish Agency, again warned his people that "we must not sully our struggle with despicable acts of madness...