Word: nods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wink & Nod. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, the Great Isolationist, had been doing practically nothing for a fortnight but probing for such a commitment. He was specifically interested in a possible agreement between the U. S. and Britain already bound by the 1936 Naval Treaty and two of the "democracies" which Franklin Roosevelt has intimated may eventually have to take the totalitarian powers over their knees. In response to direct questioning, Admiral Leahy had denied point-blank the existence of such an agreement. So had Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee. So had Secretary of State Hull...
...effect that he was "expertly informed that, should it at any time serve the interests of the two great democracies, their Navies would automatically complement each other in the Pacific." Added Columnist Krock: "This is the kind of understanding that is hardly more than a wink or a nod, the sort of thing not Mr. Johnson or anyone else can extract from men's inner minds by means of a resolution...
...Washington's Willard Hotel one day last week. A score of photographers squatted in the corridor with lenses trained on the elevator. Newsreel men fidgeted with their cameras. Reporters milled around in the glare of light reflectors. Suddenly the door opened, an elevator boy gave them a prearranged nod, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor stepped forth accompanied by George McGregor Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s three-man committee currently trying to reunite the divided House of Labor. Waving his hands in inarticulate dismay, Mr. Green dashed for Suite...
...hard driving fullback, and tackle Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. '38, whose six feet four inches in height and 203 pounds in weight made him the biggest man in House ball. Husky Paul G. Counihan '39 won the other tackle berth for Adams, and George Akerson, Jr. '39 got the nod at left end for the Gold-coasters...
Brown, which defeated Worcester 6-0, will be the next encounter for the Freshmen. Despite Crimson improvement the nod must go to the Bruins because of their showing against the Academy team from Worcester...