Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That no bargain would be struck at London, that the Conference would fall far short of its aims was a view widely held outside of Washington last week. In that event, it was predicted, President Roosevelt would utterly reverse his foreign policy, launch boldly on a program of extreme economic nationalism to achieve domestic recovery...
...founding, the Federation has grown to have 5,000 clubs. 500,000 individual members, dozens of earnest aims. It conducts study courses, encourages U. S. composers by offering prizes which have ranged from $100 to$10,000. It has spent over $300,000 helping young U. S. artists to launch their careers-among them Soprano Hilda Burke and Contralto Kathryn Meisle who got into the Chicago Opera. Basso Arthur Anderson who got into the Metropolitan.∙ And the ladies of the Federation make good listeners for ambitious young artists who would otherwise have a hard time finding any listeners...
...Groton crew, stroked and captained by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.: a race against Belmont Hill School by 2½ lengths, in 5 min. 25 sec., fastest time for a mile made by any Groton crew in ten years; at Groton, Mass. Capt. Roosevelt's mother was in the launch that followed the race, with her son John (assistant manager of the 1932 Groton football team) and a distant cousin Cornelius Roosevelt, who manages the crew...
...quarter of a mile from the finish a police launch that was chasing the speedy outboard motorboat gave the Crimson crew another wash, and the Midshipmen. rowing at 36, got ahead by a deck Stroke Drury raised the Crimson beat from 33 as soon as the wash had subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length...
...Janeiro he says: "If there are seven wonders in the world, this city is one of them!" Politically and economically, he does not regard South America as grownup. "The trouble with the South Americans is that they see everything too big. These people, so charming and optimistic, launch out as soon as they have any money without ever considering whether they will be able to carry on afterwards or not. . . . Absenteeism is the trouble everywhere in South America. . . . The most frequent mistake made in studying South American politics is the determination to find deep currents of opinion where there...