Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain gods were pouring destructive torrents into the two River Dragons' veins. Mad with fear, myriads of peasants and town dwellers remembered that as recently as 1931 the Hooding Yangtze chased 10,000,000 Chinese from their homes and killed 140,000 by drowning alone-not to mention the ensuing famine: the greatest disaster of modern times. This year, should both Dragon Rivers rampage at once, they would flood "China's Granary," fruitful valleys peopled by 100,000,000 Chinese...
...advisory capacity, whose chief concern today is with the long tier of filing cabinets containing the desiers of his numberless charities which stand behind his desk in the K. L. office; Otto Kahn, elected 1897, diplomat of the firm, whose numerous public and private appearances, not to mention ill health, have in recent years reduced his time...
...German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...
Havana's Chief of Police is Antonio B. Ainciart. Last week he issued a general order. No mention was made of the police habit of shooting anti-Machadoans on sight under the informal ley de juga, but, ordered Chief Ainciart, "The members of the force must abstain from harsh or insulting language in all cases...
...long regarded Rhodesmen as disagreeable blighters, scarcely fit even for one another's depressing company. Gentler observers reflect that Oxford does not represent all of England. Its young men are mostly of the gentry. And British gentry are alien to youths from big U. S. cities, not to mention those of the U. S. hinterland whence most Rhodes Scholars come. Cecil Rhodes's will provided that Scholars be chosen two from a State, which has sometimes resulted in thinly populated States sending up indifferent candidates. In 1929 Parliament was persuaded to make a change. Candidates are now chosen...