Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs for its own war machine, with a view to selling at a profit to Italy. Brazil Blanketed. From a world news standpoint the effect of Geneva's lie was to blanket and distract attention from the arrival in Geneva that day of by far the most negative note received by the League of Nations since it asked nonLeague States to declare themselves on sanctions. Cabled the United States of Brazil, largest South American state: "NOT BEING A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BRAZIL DOES NOT PROPOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN MEASURES NOW ADOPTED BY THAT BODY." Re-Export...
...wrote: "We now know, since Tuesday, that the tide has turned, away from the Democrats and in favor of the Republicans." It was one of the first such gleams in months. Along with gloom at New Deal doings, there has lately crept into his dispatches a note of despair at his own inability to make citizens understand their peril. "No amount of explanation seems able to make the country see. . . ." he writes. And: "I am not sure that enough of the public can be brought to see the deeper implications...
Revenge for a defeat suffered last year will be the key note of the performance of the band this afternoon as it winds, turns, and tintinabulates on Soldiers Field...
...other day one of these wags came stalking into the Crimson office, grinning like a baboon, slapped the program of a recent symphony concert on our desk, and demanded that we print two whole pages out of it bodily. The heading to the particular note that interested him read: "Death Music of Siegfried, from 'Gotterdammerung', Act IH, Scene 2". In its own eloquent way it was almost as moving as the music. And then immediately under it appeared a modest advertisement for J. S. Waterman & Sons, Funeral Service since...
...Latest note of encouragement for President Roosevelt and his New Dealers in their pre-election scramble to uncover signs of recovery comes form the B.A.A. office. To date, more Yale game tickets have been sold than for any similar period in the last three years...