Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloomy old State Department Building many a window stayed lighted all night long last week while clerks decoded a stream of cables that poured in from abroad. Across the street in the White House, foreign words and wars were the main concern also of the man who had set the State Department to working overtime. Having previously decided that he wanted an extra session of Congress and what he wanted it to do, Franklin Roosevelt's major job in Washington was to deal with the reverberations, political and international, that followed his announcement in Chicago of a new foreign...
...Main campaign issues were the New Deal on one hand, and Governor Bailey's high-handedness on the other. Making capital of the fact that his opponent had opposed major White House bills including the Court Plan in the last session, Governor Bailey promised to support the President's program in full, announced that Representative Miller's candidacy was "conceived in malice and born in hatred of the President's . . . administration." Apparently deciding that criticism of the New Deal was an offense less heinous than highhandedness, Arkansas voters this week swept Representative Miller into higher office...
...haywire school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind up to. In Double Wedding the melee is Charlie's wedding to Irene, staged in his trailer home, which turns into a wedding to Margit...
Occidental Governments so fear the spread of China's pestilences that the U. S. Public Health Service has an outpost at Hong Kong, which last week reported the main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally...
Last May the News Called attention to the fact that "dinner table education" was far from a complete success here at Yale. It was then reaffirmed that one of the main purposes of the college plan, as originally conceived, was to make the men on the faculty more accessible to undergraduates, and in so doing to foster that friendship between mature men and students which is so valuable to both. In addition, it was pointed out that many colleges seemed to have neglected this aspect of college life, for in some of them it was an extraordinary event when...