Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort which they had omitted until His Majesty's Government recently began to take a line more friendly to Italy. Few weeks ago "Italian atrocities in Ethiopia" were big journalistic stuff, especially when they were supposed to have been committed against the Red Cross. Last week equally big news in England was eye-witness testimony by Ebenezer Ralph Hooper, M. D., a member of the American Ambulance Mission in Ethiopia. Speaking at Leeds, terse Dr. Hooper said that Benito Mussolini had been right in claiming that the Ethiopian high command deliberately misused the Red Cross for purposes...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek for having let Japan virtually seize North China, and proudly swelled his chest amid shrieking Cantonese plaudits. Only thing odd about all this was that there were no Japanese in the part of China into which General Pai sent troops "against the Japanese" and that news of their advance was printed in Tokyo papers days before it got under...
According to Chinese news sources, about 1,000,000 Chinese soldiers were soon involved, the forces of General Pai advancing against positions held by troops of Generalissimo Chiang north of Canton. Pai's untrained soldiers really thought they were advancing "against the Japanese." When they found themselves facing fellow Chinese troops they stopped, camped, waited. Meanwhile at Nanking the Japanese Military Attaché, Major General Seiichi Kita, spilled a great many beans by nervously observing that if it should be proved that Japan had sold munitions to General Pai there would be nothing irregular in that. Cried this dimwit...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...most popular boarding schools, now educates some 550 boys from all over the U. S. Its atmosphere is sporty, informal, distinct from the inbred smallness of such schools as Groton and from the democratic bigness of Exeter and Andover. Last week at its 126th commencement, Lawrenceville heard good news. Capitalist Edward Stephen Harkness, ardent apostle of the House Plan who had given $26,000,000 to install it at Harvard and his alma mater Yale, had decided to make the House Plan's early home a laboratory for his second educational enthusiasm, the Conference Plan. Next year Lawrenceville, armed...