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...this bill with the greatest speed possible to officialdom, penitent Japanese civilians were even quicker, have been going around to able U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew with all sorts of small & large contributions, many brought by Japanese school children shepherded by their teachers. In Joe Crew's nondescript kitty there was $10,800 last week when the Ambassador was authorized by Good Neighbor Roosevelt to establish this as a trust fund in perpetuity, income to be spent entirely in Japan "for purposes testifying to good will between Japan and the United States." Part of the money will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Good Neighbors | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...always nondescript Chinese air force, consisting chiefly of planes built in the Soviet Union, the U. S., Italy and Britain, was further unstandardized last week by the addition of several German light bombers and a squadron of French pursuit planes. The Generalissimo has disbanded, dismissed the U. S., French and other foreign free-lance pilots of the famed Chinese Fourteenth Bombardment Squadron, today has enough Chinese and Russian airmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tea for Bombers | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...pamphleteer Charles J. Moos '38 and a colleague who preferred to remain anonymous created quite a show at the Sanders meeting yesterday when they appeared with Congressman Bernard to advertise a "second Boston Tea-Party." Dressed in Indian clothes they led a nondescript element of peace strikers and Radcliffites into Congress Street in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND "BOSTON TEA-PARTY" DISAPPOINTS LARGE CROWD | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

...faces of these farm women," "Uncle" Henry said. "They are so tired and worn and spiritless. There is a mission for someone: to bring material comforts, help and inspiration to the woman who labors on the farm." That was in 1907 and Horace Klein was advertising manager of a nondescript magazine called the Farmer's Wife. Its publisher was Edward A. Webb who also ran The Farmer, a poultry paper. Horace Klein carried back to St. Paul "Uncle" Henry's message and Publisher Webb decided to let his India-born, missionary-trained sister, Dr. Ella S. Webb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Farmer's Wife | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...third-floor room of the museum include three gold nose rings, two gold ear spools, two gold head crests, two gold strips to be sewn on clothing, two gold bird's heads, two miniature gold arm bands, two frog-shaped ornaments, two gold disks, and two other nondescript gold ornaments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $300 REWARD OUT FOR INFORMATION IN PEABODY ROBBERY | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

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