Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure passed a plurality in the Diet had always sufficed to elect Prussia's Premier. Last week Prussia's shrewd old owl was variously reported as "determined to keep the Premiership at all costs" and as "so appalled by the losses of his own party, not to mention the Fascist gains, that he feels he must resign...
...Philadelphia the Hartford Courant was awarded the Francis Wayland Ayer Cup presented annually by N. W. Ayer & Sons for the best newspaper typographical makeup. From among the 1,475 other entries, chosen for honorable mention, were: the New York American, New York Herald Tribune (last year's winner), Newark Evening News, Baltimore Sun, Detroit Free Press...
...should like to correct a statement made in the section on music in your issue of April 4. You mention a phonograph record of Mlle. Lucienne Boyer, and say that "Parisians go to the swank Monseigneur to hear her sing" or something of the sort...
...game of table tennis, his small Chinese face, no longer inscrutable, would assume an appalled expression, as though you had insulted one of his ancestors. Lo Wenching comes from Peiping and he learned to play ping-pong at Tsing-Hua University. He, like other ping-pong players, hates mention of table tennis because so many people confuse it with ping-pong which is played with patented equipment, on a standard court, by standard rules...
...each of ?500,000 denomination. Kreuger took the counterfeits, forged on them the name of E. Drelli, gave them to his companies in return for good bonds upon which he could borrow. To anyone who became suspicious he would whisper that relations between France and Italy were strained, no mention of his big "loan" to Italy must be made...