Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draw attention to the Virgin Islands between the time the U. S. bought them from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000 and the day Herbert Hoover paid them their first Presidential visit in 1931. Following a brief inspection. President Hoover publicly labeled them "a poorhouse." Not bothering to mention the fact that U. S. Prohibition had ruined the Islanders by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum, the President left the three little Virgins to Civil Governor Pearson whom he had just appointed, sailed back to bigger headaches in Washington...
Your very interesting story titled "AgitProp" [TIME, June 17], which tells of the campaign of suppression accorded Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty and of the currently expanding workers' theatre, should be amplified to a certain extent. Your write-up does not mention a rather amazing and in ways amusing "Pittsburgh episode" which is newsworthy as well...
...piece has, in certain sections, been banned, in others its actors jailed, its director kidnapped, the two Pittsburgh presentations have been hailed, applauded and even encouraged. The local "workers' theatre," which presented the piece as the New Theatre in Pittsburgh, is composed of the "shirt-sleeved amateurs" you mention in your article. This group entered the local Drama League Contest-a yearly competition of amateur groups sponsored by conservative Drama League (a stuffy organization of "drama enthusiasts")-won it easily-were awarded the Samuel French Trophy and $50-and next morning got headlines in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph...
...fancy that Koizumi, who "does not mention . . . that . . . Hearn was compelled to support 13 people on his small salary," also fails to mention that Hearn's salary at the Government college at Kumamoto was reduced soon after Hearn became a citizen of Japan-ostensibly because a "native" could not possibly be worth as much as a "foreigner...
Flush with profits, von Ribbentrop turned to dabbling in German politics at a period when any mention of Adolf Hitler would cause President von Hindenburg to snort: "I wouldn't appoint that Austrian poltroon so much as a postman!" Undismayed, Major von Ribbentrop kept dropping hints among Der Feldmarschall's military entourage that it might be the smart thing to make some sort of deal with Hitler. Finally in January 1933, at the home of Cologne Banker Franz von Schroeder, von Ribbentrop engineered the first meeting of Political Upstart Adolf Hitler and weak, perpetually scheming Lieut.-Colonel Franz...