Word: lowan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clever dodge of blaming any international scrape they got into in China on the military people on the spot. The U. S. has adopted the stalemate expedient of letting its military people on the spot take independent counteraction. Ever since the Chinese-Japanese War started Admiral Yarnell, tall, thin lowan, has had a free hand from Washington in dealing with emergencies. The Admiral has thus won several quarrels with the Japanese, and has probably saved U. S. citizens in China some of the humiliation and indignities that Britons have undergone. In answering so effectively Japan's ultimatum last week...
This the civic pride of a native lowan, you think; but no, I'm from Missouri...
...last week's homecomers. Among them: 25-year-old Brigade Commissar (political instructor) John Gates from Youngstown, Ohio; Sergeant Gerald Cook, office boy for the pinko Nation; Lieut. Manny Lancer, formerly of the Workers Alliance; Sergeant Thomas Page, a Manhattan Negro (wounded on the Ebro front): an lowan who became Captain Owen Smith; 20-year-old Nurse Rose Waxman of Manhattan. Saddest of the heroes was a lad whose parents met him at the dock, snatched off his purple military beret, hopped up & down on it, indignantly marched him home...
...living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that Herbert Hoover had kept not one cent of the salary he received as a public official: $300,000 for his four years as President, nearly $100,000 for over seven years as Secretary of Commerce. According to Kansan Scott, lowan Hoover said...
...replaced its annual grants to the University with a 5? levy on each $100 worth of taxable property. In 1931 President Kent supplemented his plant by opening a separate free college for Louisville's Negroes a mile from the main campus. Although Louisville is coeducational, grey-haired, able lowan Kent, who gets $15,000 a year, sends his own daughter Constance to Vassar...