Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston. Hancock was treasurer of the College from 1773-1779 while being engaged in the many patriotic duties for which he is better known. Other pictures are of Cotton and Increase Mather, of Sir Henry Vane, of Governor John Endecott, and of Jeremiah Dummer, Jr. The only modern note injected into the exhibition is the famous Charles Hopkinson life portrait of the late Charles W. Eliot...
This left the Great Powers rebuffed and helpless, unless they were willing to intervene. Only voice of note to speak up on this risky point was that of the Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. "Mediation? Who can undertake the task?" he asked. "It would be a great thing if the leading European powers would attempt it, but this might lead only to dissension among themselves. . . . 'Disquieting signs that the world seems to be going mad have come from this horrible civil war in Spain...
Asia's War Lord is that most repressed, overeducated and modest of monarchs, the Son of Heaven, His Majesty the Tenno or Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Last week to London from Tokyo flashed a stiff diplomatic note replying to that in which Britain last July 15 announced that she has "invoked the escalator clause" of the London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr...
...Kingdom of Norway's latest note to the British Empire, Oslo again demanded limitation of the annual whale-oil haul to 2,265,000 barrels, whereas British soap makers insist on 2,529,000. Even more vital, Norway claimed, is the need of fixing quotas for each expedition and preventing these quotas from being transferred or juggled from one expedition to another. Said the Norwegian note: "This is the only means of preventing the extermination of the whale...
Extracting from his Dictator's black wallet a 100 lire ($8) bill, Mussolini said: "At least for one week you will now be able to devote all your attention to your child," handed her the note, climbed back behind the wheel and sped away...