Word: globe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When globe-trotting Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Moscow in 1936 to interview Joseph Stalin he also met a bearded, scholarly American named Angus Ward, then U.S. consul in Moscow. He heard of him no more until last October, when he read that Ward, by then U.S. consul in Mukden, Manchuria, had been clapped in jail by the Chinese Communist government. Like many another indignant American, Roy Howard waited for stern and decisive action by the U.S. State Department to get its consul out of jail. After a wait of weeks, while State hemmed & hawed and did nothing either...
Valpey accomplished no miracles. So now, a little more than a year later, Fish erupts into print. This morning's Boston "Globe" carries a front-page story and the full text of a letter from the former Congressman--a letter which also went to Bill Bingham, the Alumni Bulletin, the New York Times, and the CRIMSON. The letter's central point is contained in these sentences...
...expect to send a copy of this letter to the Boston Globe, Harvard Alumni Bulletin, the Crimson, and New York Times for release Tuesday morning, November 29th, 1949. I believe it expresses the opinion of most former Harvard football players...
...have been reading the criticisms that have been heaped upon you by some of the Boston newspapers, and particularly the serial articles in the Boston Globe which I have always considered the fairest and best football paper in Boston. Perhaps I have some prejudice because of my friendship and admiration for Mel Webb...
Jerry Nason, Boston Globe: "Yale has won three football games this season. This leads to the suspicion that the place is lousy with athletic scholarships. Since Harvard isn't lousy (no comma here, please) with athletic scholarships, my vote is the Eli by the margin of one scholarship...