Word: hawke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia's sleek, vigorous, hawk-featured former Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce was first Chief Delegate to explode in a Conference session: "This Conference is a failure...
...holocaust at Shanghai (TIME. Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.) several million dollars worth of damage was done by Japanese bombing planes. If and when they ever return, China hopes to be ready with a hot reception. Lately 75,000 slant-eyed Shanghai patriots cheered a zipping U. S. Curtiss Hawk combat plane just right for shooting down bombers. While they gasped and squealed, the 700-h.p. ship tore around Shanghai at 200 m.p.h., dived at 350 m.p.h. to annihilate an imaginary bomber and flattened out with a roar like 47 Chinese dragons just above the head of Mayor Wu Techen...
...When the Hawk was finally landed by Major James H. ("Jimmy") Doolittle, Chinese swarmed around to pat it and the ship was christened Greater Shanghai by Mayor Wu's beaming wife. Soon 36 Hawks, costing $1,000,000, were ordered by the Chinese Government. The first ships left the U. S. this week...
...that any words I could assemble in a newspaper story could be of benefit to others who have no medium of being heard." Worn out by her civic labors, last April she and her "73-year-old sea captain father" set out in a 48-ft. schooner, the Black Hawk, to sail around the world. But two months later the Black Hawk fetched up on a sandbar off Cat Island, in the Bahamas, and Skipper Joan went back to Manhattan to raise $300. With $1,000 and Count Ilya Tolstoy as a deckhand, undaunted Adventuress Lowell set off again. Said...
...half column inside story. Besides potent Lawyer Wilton John Lambert, the Hearst defense included William Edward Leahy, onetime Government prosecutor of the late notorious "Nicky"' Arnstein, more lately defender of Al Capone against the Government. Also Publisher Hearst's closest legal adviser and board chairman, exceedingly able, hawk-nosed John Francis Neylan, dropped in on the Washington trial...