Word: lin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seamstress in a clothing factory. While the State Department was considering her case, she said last week: "It is not in the brain work of capitalists to make much improvement for the masses, but the United States has done a great many things to surprise the world. . . . Frank- lin Roosevelt is the first President to recognize that the masses have a right on the table of life, and he's only just begun." Few hours later the State Department authorized its Toronto Consul General to visa her passport into...
Private Man. If the biggest public man in the inflation fight was Senator Thomas, the biggest private man in the fight was Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit. Early in 1932 Father Coughlin (Kawg-lin) having damned Prohibition and likened Andrew Mellon to Judas Iscariot, was getting 80,000 or more letters a week from his listeners. He went to Washington to appeal to the Post Office Department for a special postal substation to handle his mail. While there he too met George LeBlanc and thenceforward his sermons took on a more and more economic tinge until...
...lady jockeys were socialite maids and matrons, counterparts of gentleman jockeys but much less experienced in competitive riding. Two, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Mrs. John Frank lin, rode their own mounts. The others had been invited to ride by horse-owning friends whose silks they wore. Bookmakers found their early favorite in extremely horsey Mrs. "Jock" Whitney, although to make it more of a race she had refrained from entering one of her swiftest mounts. Then it was revealed that beauteous Mrs. "Sonny" Whitney would ride Halcyon, and Mrs. Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both...
...athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north China. He picked the growing Nationalist movement as the coming power in China, gave it money and support. His nemesis was wily Old Chang Tso-lin of Manchuria, captor of Peiping in 1926, always an enemy of the Soviet. Leo Karakhan was recalled to Moscow, but in no disgrace. Stalin knew how near he had come to succeeding...
...Chinese Government Service, had a premonition that he would marry her. He did, and the rest of her book describes chiefly her life in the foreign settlements of Nanking, Canton, Tientsin. All through China's recent troubled years Nora Waln has kept green her friendship with the Lin family. When she wrote her book about them she got bilingual Yeng-peng to read it to the assembled family, asked their permission to publish it. The 18-day reading completed, permission was granted. Said Uncle Keng-lin: "It is an achievement for a talkative woman to have written so many...