Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GENEVA--Informed Fascist quarters indicated tonight that Italy may return to the League of Nations soon as a result of a British note asking that the question recognizing Italy's Ethiopian conquest be put before the League's May 9 council meeting...
Effect of Franklin Roosevelt's nocturnal note was to add to the incredible amount of confusion already caused by the combination of an innocuous, 40-year-old plan to make the Government more efficient with a Presidential personality capable of such gestures. When the House began its own rowdy debate on Reorganization, Administration leaders found it advisable to accept the opposition amendment reposing ultimate authority for Presidential shifts in a Congressional majority. On this basis the bill seemed sure of passage, and riding back to Washington, tanned and rested after his busy week, Franklin Roosevelt felt reasonably convinced that...
...handout, Ambassador Daniels said he had been summoned by President Cárdenas, whom he found surrounded by resplendent military aides and members of his Cabinet. The Mexican President did not confer with Josephus Daniels but read off a statement which the Ambassador said he thought constituted a diplomatic note. It was flashed to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. "I am gratified to have thus formally received this important expression of Mexico's deep friendship for my country," read the Ambassador's statement, "I expressed this gratification to the President...
Throughout The Sea Gull sounds a deeper note also, telling of human growth and decline. The shallow Trigorin and the histrionic Irina end up playing lotto. But Nina grows, as one superb device reveals: in Act I, performing in a play of Constantine's she speaks his highfalutin but charged lines mechanically; in Act IV she repeats them, makes them live. It is in delimiting his characters without disfiguring them, in acknowledging their souls but questioning their perspective that Chekhov gives to The Sea Gull a kind of ember like glow...
...last week when the note was found, Captain Fowler was selling automobile tires in San Francisco...