Word: hatchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Commission on the Coordination of Efforts for Peace was founded two years ago. with President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College at its head, it bogged at the start in attempting to list all the U. S. anti-war organizations. In Manhattan alone there are some 200 pacifist groups including the Peace Patriots, the New York Committee for the Struggle against War, the Penny Fund for Peace ("40,000,000 Pennies from 40,000,000 Women & Children"). But the 30-odd U. S. peace organizations which amount to anything belong to the National Peace Conference. When not engaged...
...viable hen's egg may be hatched in three weeks, but three months are if anything a bit brief to hatch a complicated international treaty. Nonetheless, in October liberal William Lyon Mackenzie King, campaigning before the Canadian general election, promised if he became Prime Minister to negotiate a trade treaty* with the U. S. within 90 days. Only fortnight ago Prime Minister King went to Washington to see Franklin Roosevelt and in the heat of their mutually impetuous goodwill the treaty was incubated. Last week, only seven days after Mr. King had first nested in a White House...
McGill. As the S. S. Duchess of Richmond steamed up the Gulf of St. Lawrence one day last week, Canadian newshawks crowded around a hatch on the top deck. On the hatch cover sat Arthur Eustace Morgan, British principal-elect of McGill University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...
...explained that he and his wife were just stopping for the night. The Eskimos did not understand. Still trying to make conversation, he asked, "Get many ducks?" Eskimos could not understand that either. "Well," Lindbergh said at last, "guess I'll go back to bed." He closed the hatch, stretched out on his parachute, fell fast asleep, while the puzzled Eskimos floated off into the inky night...
...reach the Senate floor this week. On the theory that processors regularly pass the taxes along to consumers, the Amendments would outlaw all suits for tax refunds even if the Supreme Court should declare AAA unconstitutional. Thus taxes paid previous to the Amendments' passage are supposedly down the hatch to stay. Only recourse for the processor was to hold out on his taxes, let the Government go into court and try to force a collection...