Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific Club Sirs: I read with interest your mention of the Pacific Club in Noumea and of its handsome dividends [TIME, June 19]. ... As soon as the Club's "long bar" and "one-armed ban dits" showed sufficient return, members were informed that their original investments would be refunded with no handsome dividends. Who got those negotiable and liquid dividends...
After enjoying Caryl Weinberg's letter (TIME, May 1) on "Tokyo Rose" we heard "Tokyo Ann" mention it in her broadcast. It's true, their recordings are good, and they do hit close to home. But to us in the Aleutians it's a morale booster...
...Japan Was Provoked." Minister Lyttelton nodded approvingly. When he got up to make his speech extolling U.S.-British cooperation, he read from his Cabinet-approved little slips of blue paper until he came to an incidental mention of the word "Japan." Then he added extemporaneously: "Japan was provoked into attacking the Americans at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty on history ever to say that America was forced into the war. Everyone knows where American sympathies were. It is incorrect to say that America was ever truly neutral even before America came into...
...first time I have ever mentioned this matter in public. I do not intend to mention it again, unless it shall be unavoidable. . . . But I cannot sit silent in the face of less restraint across the aisle. . . . I cannot allow the suggestion to pass that there is any less devotion to the ideals of the Republic among Republicans than among Democrats...
...younger men, the Midshipmen, the lineup of stars was too long to mention. Diano really starred between innings as he peddled Sloan's Liniment and blood plasma to the creaking members of the faculty...