Word: graces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace 1) has a sense of humor 2) does not dislike Americans...
Nevertheless, the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram solemnly warned: "The New Deal Can't Afford This ... it is not illegal but it certainly is improper. ..." Newshawks recalled that Charley's client's Station WLW ("The Nation's Station") is currently in bad grace with some members of the all-powerful Federal Communications Commission, particularly Commissioner George Henry Payne. But WLW got a routine extension of its increased power grant just after it hired Charley Michelson...
...Peace Preservation Corps of "General"' Yin Ju-keng (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935 et seq.). Toothy Mr. Yin, who looks most of the time like a startled rabbit, is a Chinese with a potent Japanese in-law who became a "general" overnight by so styling himself, and by the grace of Japanese bayonets. He was ruling uneventfully last week in his strategic bailiwick which lies close to Peiping on the north and east, when suddenly his Peace Preservation Corps, every man a Chinese, started using their Japanese weapons against the Japanese garrison at General Yin's capital, Tungchow...
...Sikorsky 543 transport of Pan-American-Grace Airways, carrying n passengers and crew of three from Santiago, Chile, radioed it was circling in a rainstorm over the field at Cristobal, C. Z., where it was scheduled to transfer its passengers to a northbound Pan-American Clipper. No more was heard from the Sikorsky. Next day its wreckage was found 20 mi. west of Cristobal, all on board presumably lost...
Divorced. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, 61, poet, English Professor at the University of Wisconsin, famed for the "phobic prison" which keeps him within a few blocks of the University; by Grace Golden Leonard, 29; in Madison. Wis. Soon after they were married in June 1935, Prof. Leonard announced that his wife had taken him by the hand and led him out of the six-block area in which he had been held by agoraphobia. The cure was only temporary. A year ago Mrs. Leonard obtained a divorce, later had the decree set aside. The grounds were the same...