Word: noted
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...salmon piled on the decks of four fishing vessels, that at the present rate Alaska's salmon would not last five years. The State Department, whose agreements with Great Britain and Japan settled the similar dispute over Bering Sea seal fishing in the '80s, sent a note to Japan affirming that salmon spawned in the U. S. and protected by the Bureau of Fisheries were U. S. property, waited for an answer. Last week it came in satisfactory form. In what amounted to a complete capitulation, Japan promised to suspend her "survey," issue no licenses for salmon fishing...
This week Generalissimo Franco replied directly to a protest by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with a note saying that the Rightists bomb cities and towns "only when military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that...
...ship's captain may dislike vessel, ocean and passengers was comically demonstrated by Cinemactor Walter Connolly in The Captain Hates the Sea. Last week a real captain of a real ship was heard on the subject. Near Westport, Wash., a bottled note cast overboard in mid-Pacific last July was washed ashore. It was written by Captain W. J. Fowler, then first officer of Oceanic & Oriental Navigation Co.'s Golden Horn which had just been through 18 days of rough weather...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...interesting to note that the subjects selected by the two winners were resurrected from the era that produced the judges. A fine delivery of the modern verse of T. S. Eliot, and an eloquent presentation of the modern speech of a Southern Senator, went sadly unrewarded...