Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife. What Poet Service did not mention, said Mr. Mahoney last week, was that the "lady called Lou" was also shot. She recovered, he said, and was two years ago reported living quietly in Prince Rupert...
...neither note did Mr. Hull mention President Cardenas' far larger expropriations of foreign-owned oil properties. These seizures, resulting in grave loss of markets and taxes, have undermined Mexico's national currency to a cracking point (TIME, Aug. 29). The Hull-Welles stratagem of confining their claims to "small" U. S. interests was adopted partly to avoid charges of Imperialism, also partly to give Señior Cardenas a graceful out. But Mexico's President has no easy out. In Mexico's economic crisis he needs U. S: comfort and support. He also needs the powerful...
...promoted a man who is one of the few remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government, deserving of promotion if only for the amount of trouble he has shouldered. But even such good news as a promotion was a reflection of a purge. The announcement made passing mention of "former" Vice Premiers Vlas Chubar and Stanislav Kosior. Chubar and Kosior recently failed of election to either the Legislature of their native Ukraine or that of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. Secretive Soviet officials would not say whether or not this prominent Bolshevik pair are still Vice Premiers...
...Emperor Hirohito, the not-too-alert Son of Heaven, sent to his Fascist ally Premier Benito Mussolini the highest decoration in the gift of His Imperial Majesty. Italian papers proudly reported that Il Duce had received the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Japanese Empire, did not mention that it consisted of a decoration in the form of a flower, that its proper name was the "Order of the Chrysanthemum...
...game days, the candidates are divided between the Freshmen and Varsity games with the majority of them working with the Varsity. Again, of course, the work is rotated so that each man gets acquainted with the duties of the different jobs. It might be worthwhile to mention here that there are usually one or two competitors that go with the teams on the trips...