Word: kente
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...began in earnest last summer when Columbia started its own news-gathering bureau. In two months Paul White, onetime United Pressman, had organized a staff of 600 correspondents. Columbia's News Service was successful but NBC, whose President Aylesworth is a bosom crony of A. P.'s Kent Cooper, had not had time to project a similar bureau before newspapers began strenuously objecting to Columbia's. Radio men know they are likely to need the support of newspapers if and when the Government tries to make radio stations pay special taxes...
...correspondents were concerned, the conference might as well have been held inside a clam. They found H.M.S. Kent berthed in the most in accessible corner of Singapore's harbor with British bluejackets stationed "to prevent strangers from approaching within 100 yards...
...stranger. His Highness the London-born white Rajah of Sarawak was received by the admirals aboard the Kent with royal honors. He obviously wanted to chat about what would happen should Japan try to seize the predominantly Dutch Island of Borneo which also contains the territories of British North Borneo and Sarawak. To Japanese the status of Sarawak might be hard to explain. They might consider it fair game since Sarawak is officially "an independent State," might not attach sufficient importance to the fact that Sarawak is also officially "under the protection of Great Britain." This tie is not weakened...
After Rajah Brooke left H. M. S. Kent the admirals relaxed by attending a tea for the children of Singapore Sahibs at Government House, then resumed their huddle. Broadly they discussed the naval situation created in Pacific waters by the fact that the U. S. and Japan are adding to their fleets even faster than is Great Britain, with a major "naval face" in prospect when the London Naval Treaty expires next year...