Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the outbreak of war in Europe, the importance of Chungking and Tokyo in the U. S. Ambassadorial scale has increased tremendously-so much that only London and Paris now rank them. There are good reasons. Britain, France, Germany and, to a lesser extent, Russia have all turned Westward. Of important powers, only Japan and the U. S. are just now conspicuously active in the Orient. Masters of the East and West shores of the Pacific, they are natural opponents. One of them is big, rich, complacent, lazy, subject to delayed reflexes; the other small, inordinately ambitious, troubled with intellectual...
...Christmas Day in the year 1214, the barons of England armed themselves capapie, and came before their King, the cruel and crafty John, to ask a government of liberty and by law. Twice John "Lackland" denied their plea. The plea became a battle cry, the petitioners an army. London threw open its gates to them, so did Lincoln and Exeter. Wales promised help, and the Scottish nobles spurred south to add the strength of their swords. The country had risen as a man: John found himself with but seven loyal horsemen in his train, facing a nation in arms...
...auspices of the Phillips Brooks House, will be ready for distribution next Friday or Saturday. Features of the volume will be ready for distribution next Friday or Saturday. Features of the volume will be a tribute in Frankfurter by the President, a biography by Harold J. Laski of the London School of Economics, and a discussion of "Frankfurter the Teacher" by Henry M. Hart. professor of Law at Harvard...
...John M. London '41 will be the next president of the Harvard Guardian, retiring president Euno R. Hobbing '40 announced yesterday. Lester G. Hawkins '41 is succeeding Ward Mcl. Hussey '40 as editor-in-chief, and Joseph A. Hartman '41 will take the place of Roger L. Werner as business manager...
...edit'l pp. crities, incld'g lekes, Elmer Davis, U. S. Senator Fletcher seem to say that the plutocracy aided when necessary by an allied Proletariat machine rules completely in what Stuart Thomson (W.W. in East: N.).: U.S.A.: Authors: Canada: Interna'l London) calls "censorship by exclusion: autocracy by preemption" in publicity and opportunity in his effort to restore his beloved Middle class in expression and property (homes sec Princeton Survey) confiscated by quadrupled taxation. Some of Thomson's articles on his program N.Y. Her-Trib Dec. 21 '36, Feb. 20 '30 N.Y. WLD Telg'm July 10 '39 editl...