Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government but above it, the knottiest problem posed for trie Japanese was 1) how to bring the matter to his attention or 2) how to avoid doing so without offending the U. S. By week's end Washington was assured that the Roosevelt note had been brought to Hirohito's attention by Premier Fumimaro Konoye...
...Ambassador Hirosi Saito. When Secretary Hull got back to his office after his call on the President, he found wiry, worried little Mr. Saito waiting to extend "full regrets and apologies." In Tokyo, before U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew could make arrangements to transmit the President's note to the Tokyo Foreign Office, he received a call from Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. Later, in a formal note the Foreign Minister presented his Government's apologies for the incident and its promises to "deal appropriately with those responsible for the attack...
...Dearest Frankie: "Thanks for your reply to our letter. It confirmed our worst fears about you. "... We note that you say labor is 'under control' in your city. Knowing something about your methods of operation we're not surprised that you think it is. You've gotten away so long with profitable conniving between your machine and corporate industrial and financial interests that you can't imagine your 'control' ever coming...
...Civil War. It is a harsh, unsparing book. The fascists who crowd its pages are brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...
...twenty years--from 1917 to 1937--when the "Monthly," like Lucy, ceased to be. How faithfully will the revised magazine come to represent, in this later day, what its forerunner once represented? That is a question still to be answered. In this Phoenix issue it is interesting to note that many of the contributors deprecate, in notes about the reprinting of their early productions, the immaturity now exposed to view. They may be regarded in general as their own severest critics. The exceptions are Walter Lippmann and Oswald Garrison Villard who stand up in their boots and offer no apologies...