Word: midnights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speed boat regatta on the Potomac but paid small attention to the races. Europe was on his mind. Returning from the races, the President again saw Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (fresh back from Paris), then Secretary Morgenthau. After dinner, from 10 p. m. until past midnight, he sat alone in his study pondering. Besides the events in Europe, he had U. S. public opinion to consider and one of the biggest events of the week was that U. S. opinion had performed a major shift...
...fundamental effort to prevent another World War by reshaping the whole fabric of existing relations between the major European states was launched this week at No. 10 Downing Street, ten minutes after a black rainy midnight. The chiefs of Britain and France could not reach this momentous decision, or even get down to discussing it for eight solid hours at No. 10, without having first decided last week -for reasons of high policy-against fighting either for Czechoslovakia or with the Soviet Union, both treaty allies of France...
...witnesses in the new building, which is supervised by Vernon Struck, '38 last year's football star, declared that John White '42 left his room at midnight on Saturday, leaving his door ajar, and that the latter promptly blew shut, locking...
...last week of camp was marked by the over-night maneuver in which the Unit was organized as a battalion of four firing batteries. The preliminary march was but an inkling of the rough work scheduled for the night. By midnight all batteries were in position "on the base line" ready for flring at dawn. The excellence of the night's work was shown by the flring next morning. The results were commendable and demonstrated a high state of training on the part of the battery details and the flring batteries...
Professional jai-alai players, whose stock in trade are skill, strength and stamina, usually learn the game at the age of 6, retire at 35 with a life pension. They live a dormitory life the year round, have a physical examination before each performance, never have dinner until midnight, rarely associate with other than their fellow jai-alaiers. Topnotchers like Piston earn about $2,000 a month, the average player earns about $250. Latins all, they belong to the Spanish Association (controlling jai-alai body), pay 5% of their earnings toward pensions for their old age, which many of them...