Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learn U. S. business and banking methods. Few succeeded at all; those who did usually compromised about dress or family customs, or between the gods. One such was Lee Fook, longtime foreign-exchange official in the National City Bank, financial adviser to New York's Chinatown. He wore horn-rimmed spectacles, occidental dress, handled and ex changed Chinatown dollars sent back to relatives in China. But not until six years ago did he adopt Christianity, to please his second wife. Last week he died, was buried. His funeral service was read by a Protestant minister, but according to Chinese...
Cuba. Prolonged rioting between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...
...each boat a radioman worked hour after hour, sent into the ether offers to Dr. Gunnar Horn, scientist aboard the Bratt-vaag, for "exclusives" on the story, pictures, diary. Each pleaded with him for a midocean rendezvous at a designated point in the Arctic. Each could only hope and pray that the message would be received, that the Brattvaag would be there, or that they would happen upon...
...newsmen might well have preferred to trust to luck and hope that the Brattvaag's radio was deaf to all. For at the request of the Swedish Government, Norwegian officials were flashing frantic orders to Dr. Horn and the Brattvaag's crew to permit no "unauthorized person" aboard the sealer, to maintain strict secrecy regarding the story, especially the diary, and to proceed immediately to a point between Tromso and Vardo...
...Brattvaag, already on its way home because sealing had been slack, finally picked up one of the signals, put in unexpectedly at Hasvik, 125 mi. north of Tromso, for Dr. Horn to communicate with his superiors...