Word: liaison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recall once when we were gathered around Lord Riddell, who was British press liaison officer, a British correspondent asked Riddell what was the nature of the new organization called Fascists in Italy. Riddell said: 'Oh, so far as I know, just a gang of roughs.' Mussolini was on the outskirts of the group and glared at Riddell. Someone jogged Riddell's arm and whispered that the chief of the Fascists was there. Riddell looked disconcerted and added: 'But I suppose they are all right in their...
...Europe's most popular romance-writers, has lectured at the University of Berlin, shot big game in Africa, canoed on the Nile, translated Defoe, Jack London, O. Henry into his native French. His own books have been translated into 23 languages. During the War he was liaison officer with the British, Indian and U. S. Armies, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Other books: The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, The 13th Lover, The Clown Prince, The Love Clinic, Serenade to the Hangman...
...alumni, over 2,000 replied that they were dissatisfied with their present jobs, or had changed positions many times. This evil of indecision makes many college men take the handiest job rather than the best; it is for these that the Placement Service should and can be a sensible liaison between his college education and after life...
...intelligent acting. White slavery on the Chinese and San Francisco water fronts with the usual handsome young hero to rescue his fair maiden from the clutches of would be evil doers are the ingredients of the plot. This time it is further complicated by the difficulties of a liaison between a Chinese girl and her American lover, but love finds a way before the final fade-out so that the audience won't be disappointed...
Commenting further, said President Bickel: "'Naturally if the Press abdicates, radio will move in, and in this case apparently Stimson and Page as chief liaison men were importuned by the radio people to give them talks and the newspaper industry apparently simply sat idly by and let them get away with it. ... That was certainly a humiliating position for American newspapers regardless of how excellently it demonstrated the initiative and ability of the radio people...