Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Sun, onetime associate editor of Munsey's, it is scant exaggeration to say he has "been everywhere, knows everybody." His column in the Sun headed "Bob Davis Recalls:" is an inexhaustible diary of encounters with the lofty and lowly in every part of the globe, a quarter century's wealth of colorful experience...
...news value? The item appears on Page 5 of a twenty-six page newspaper, under 'Miscellaneous News Items.' The man's name is not even mentioned. Wouldn't an American paper give this item a front-page position with a headline like this, 'Cow Shoots Man?" --St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
Dawes & Sokolnikov. The only ambassadors who did not appear at Court in court dress were General Dawes and Comrade Grigorie Sokolnikov. Together they represented almost one-fifth of the earth's territory and almost one seventh of the globe's population. The General was in ordinary, long trousered U. S. evening dress. The Comrade, a shade more conventional, wore regulation British Court knee breeches, but above, instead of a standard ambassador's tight, gold laced jacket, he wore a coat and vest similar to General Dawes...
...First Dry to the witness stand was Edwin Cornell Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., director of many another potent company, business partner of New Jersey's Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (this year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said...
...Prince Takamatsu, second in the Imperial line of Japanese succession, and his doubly exalted bride (nèe Tokugawa, directly descended from the Schoguns or Tycoons who ruled Japan while the power of the present Imperial house was in abeyance), sailed from Yokohama last week on a globe circling honeymoon. In London H. I. H. will repay the visit to Japan of H. R. H. Prince Henry (TIME, May 13), and in Madrid grave, bespectacled Prince Takamatsu will pin the gorgeous Order of the Chrysanthemum ("Garter of Japan'') on sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain...