Word: informant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Truce? Peace proposals by Japan have kept pace with the Japanese Shanghai drive from the day it was launched, each Japanese bombardment being accompanied by a Japanese proposal that the Chinese peacefully withdraw. Suddenly last week Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, was able to inform the League of Nations Council at Geneva that on the British flagship in Shanghai harbor Chinese and Japanese representatives had met, talked for two hours, and agreed "in principle" upon terms of Japanese and Chinese withdrawal from the Shanghai area...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, chose to inform the nation last week that it is legal to sell gold pound pieces (called "sovereigns" and worth 20 gold shillings) for 27 paper shillings or whatever else one can get for them. Instantly "London's Gold Rush" began. Millions of British gold pieces came out of hiding and millions of Britons began to take their "paper profits...
...Minesweepers moved back and forth, touched something, found it was a wreck. All that day and night the search went on. All day, all night, news was flashed to the cities of Britain. Sir Bolton sent a telegram to wives of married members of the crew: "We regret to inform you that your husband is missing and is feared drowned. . . ." Thomas Morris' wife read her telegram, waited at the post office for another...
...Davis, onetime Undersecretary of State. His appointment fills the delegation. ¶ To the Congress which returned last week from its vacation. President Hoover addressed a special message, reiterating his Relief program, urging its speedy enactment. Said he: "I would be derelict in my duty if I did not inform the Congress of the need for action at its earliest possible moment...
...grievous heresy. Nestorius, new Patriarch of Constantinople, had declared that Mary could not be truly called "Mother of God." Mary, said he, was Mother of Christ in His human nature only. This view, in spite of protests from Rome. Nestorius defended. St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, was appointed to inform Nestorius he must recant or be deposed and excommunicated; but in the meantime Theodosius II, Emperor of the East, called a conference at Ephesus to discuss the matter. For the orthodox Catholics, for the Nestorians, it was a long, tedious struggle. In the very first session Nestorius was anathematized, deposed...