Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elliott Roosevelt, second son of The President, signed a contract to broadcast news commentaries twice a week from Fort Worth, Tex. His 15-minute programs will contain no mention of politics, will be confined to news "in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen...
...been subscribed by wealthy Chinese in blocs of $15,000 and up. The fact that Mr. Soong named none of these big subscribers brought fresh Japanese taunts and he presently revealed himself as maintaining at his own expense two large hospitals for Chinese wounded and establishing a third. "No mention has been made of this publicly before in the face of the gallantry of our soldiers in giving life and limb for their country," said Mr. Soong, brother-in-law of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. "To try to snatch credit from our soldiers would be indecent...
...artists: Edward Hopper's Corcoran Gold Medal Winner, Cape Cod Afternoon, Charles Sheeler's immaculately conceived City Interior, Frank Mechau's Last of the Wild Horses. Only U. S. painter in the money, however, was Manhattan's Robert Philipp, who won first honorable mention ($400) with Dust to Dust, a dustless scene of mourners standing at an open grave in a cold March rain...
Some people, particularly your tennis reporter, might not agree that the presence of such well-known leaders in their respective professions as the late Will Rogers, Fred Stone, Homer Croy, Don Marquis, Helen Keller and Dale Carnegie, to mention a few, make our community a distinguished one, but after all, the presence of such notables in our midst secures for Forest Hills more publicity throughout the entire year, than do the tennis matches...
President Roosevelt last week significantly let the Munters Committee see his Chicago speech six hours before he made it. The Committee had by this time decided not to brand Japan as an "aggressor" and not to mention "war." Not even the President's candid show of partiality for China budged the Committee from its two nots, but after scanning Mr. Roosevelt's words it inserted in the motion it was drafting that "League members should refrain from taking any action which might have the effect of weakening China's power of resistance . . . and should also consider...