Word: liaison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When presents no innovations but several elaborations on the hoary old pattern of musical comedy. There are two pairs of lovers-a vaudeville team which has met a couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt on paper...
When the President finally allowed him to go home last week, Governor Black was still kept in New Deal harness under a new title?a favorite Roosevelt gesture when letting an important subordinate go. He was made "liaison officer" between bankers and the Administration. Asked if the continuous traveling involved in his new task was not too big an order. Governor Black, now 60, drawled: "Well, I am healthy, young and optimistic...
Scouts were sent out the Liberal Club meeting to discover whether that organization was also in on the flendish schemes but these liaison officers were hastily expelled from the Lowell House Common Room where the meeting was being held. A special meeting of the dance committee was called by the Chairman Robert S. Hurlbut '34 to consider an immediate counter attack but the R.O.T.C. unit was destined to battle against thin air, when the N.S.L. failed to show any inclination of supporting the rumors with action...
...Harvard's Class of 1909, last month invited his old friend and classmate, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl of Munich, to '09s 25th reunion at Cambridge in June as one of his aides. Because he has a keen nose for news, huge, psychic Hanfstaengl, who is Nazi liaison officer with the U. S. and British press and Hitler's good friend, accepted last fortnight and promised to bring along a fine set of Nazi propaganda movies (TIME, April 9). Then he sat tight to see what the Harvard and U. S. reaction would...
...Hanfstaengl was in Manhattan tending the family's branch store and could not get back to Germany. On his return in 1922 he threw in his lot with an obscure troublemaker named Adolf Hitler. By last week he was Chancellor Hitler's best personal friend, his liaison officer with the U. S. and British Press, his favorite pianoplayer...