Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sternly advised by U. S. Consul Samuel Sokobin that they must not join German, British and Russian residents who were busy recruiting a group of some 250 white vigilantes armed with clubs to protect each other's lives and property as best they could. While the Sokobin "good neighbor policy" was pursued by U. S. citizens, the white club-wielders dashed about Tsingtao in groups of five, cracking the crown of every yellow native they suspected of looting. Tsingtao by this time looked from a distance like one great smoking pyre of chaos, but after some 36 hours...
After the War Mr. Chester's Greenwich, Conn, neighbor, now Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, persuaded him to enter her Postum Cereal Co. as assistant treasurer. By 1924 he was president, and it was under his direction that Postum swelled until it became General Foods Corp. with some 80 products and $74,000,000 in assets. Today as General Foods chairman, modestly ensconced in a white colonial office on the 17th floor of the Postum Building in Manhattan, a portrait of his father over the fireplace, a bust of Lincoln, his favorite character, above his silvering head, Colby...
...Crewe, Liberal; and Lord Plymouth, Conservative, were among peers who joined Lord Samuel in publicly resisting the temptation to take a negative view of Nazi demands and ambitions. However, Lord Allen plaintively admitted that Britain "cannot hand out colonies like cards in a game of 'beg of my neighbor...
...with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor boy named Rene, Mother Slogum decided to teach both children a lesson, sent her brutal brother and two sons out to give Rene "a good scare." But even Mother Slogum was frightened when she heard they had castrated...
...democratic republics of Latin America Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight dispatched copies, inscribed and handsomely printed at his own expense, of the enthusiastically democratic speeches he delivered during his junket to the Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires last year. Last week came a singularly disappointing response from Good Neighbor Roosevelt's "good friend" President Getulio Dornelles Vargas of Brazil...