Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...geisha girl has been hungrily awaiting his return for three years-seems a little forlorn with no one to sing Puccini's music. For cinemaddicts who enjoy librettos without song it should provide acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Gary Grant heartily promising to return to Japan when the robins nest again...
...granddaughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post; in Manhattan. The 1930 marriage was declared invalid by Referee John M. Tierney because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed to pay Mr. Wayne $1,000 a month to quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne's countersuit...
Promises v. Policies. With what he called a "collection of dull facts," Campaigner Hoover sought to prove that Governor Roosevelt's castigations of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff were based on ignorance, misconceptions or deliberate misrepresentations. He ridiculed his opponent's suggestion of a "nest egg" for public works. "It will doubtless surprise him to learn that the eggs have not only been laid but have hatched." At length he recited his relief measures which, he said,"speak louder than any promises" Hoover boasts...
...Return to New York. "Nest Egg," By radio from his Albany officeGovernor Roosevelt last week laid down "certain great basic principles'' of his relief program. Said he: "The primary duty rests on the community through local government and private agencies to take care of the relief of unemployment. . . . Where there are so many people out of work that local funds are insufficient, the state comes into the picture. . . . Where the state itself is unable successfully to fulfill this obligation it then becomes the positive duty of the Federal Government to step in to help. . . . It took the present...
Irak was "planted" in more senses than one when the League of Nations slipped it like an egg into the British nest in 1921 with the status of a Mandate. Probably Britons will always control most of the Kingdom's Mosul oil through their ably drawn contracts. Last week. however, Mother Briton clucked loudly at Geneva, announced that Irak has officially hatched into an "Independent Kingdom." To certify Irak's independence Irak was made a member state of the League of Nations and batches of League statesmen made speeches...