Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassadors of Finland, Sweden and Denmark called at the White House. Wednesday morning the President wrote a note (addressed to President Kalinin of Russia, but intended for Dictator Stalin), left it on his desk for Secretary Cordell Hull to read when he returned from New York at 2 p. m. The Secretary suggested several changes, the note was sent; Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt delivered it and talked for an hour with Premier Molotov. When Russia replied its contents would be made public, and "it was of a nature that should undoubtedly produce an acknowledgment...
...sailors grinned as Nazi steamers, busy in Tallinn harbor taking aboard Germans for evacuation to the Reich (see p. 21) , dipped their swastika flags three times in salute to the Soviet flotilla which replied with three dips of the hammer & sickle. Orders then cracked, Soviet gunners leaped to their positions, and a Red salute of 21 guns belched out over Tallinn, smartly returned by shore batteries...
...Catholics and as logical Latins, Italians viewed with dismay last week the physical retreat before advancing Bolshevism of the 118,000 Germans who abruptly left the Baltic States on orders of the Führer (see p. 21). Even the carefully controlled press began to express this feeling...
Brill gained notoriety last year as the host to several score undergraduates at a series of "Afternoons for Tannin Tipplers." Chief feature of the teas was a tirade against J. P. Marquand '14, who, as author of the best-selling novel, "Wickford Point," which intimately sketched "The Brills," a decadent New England family, was the arch-enemy of the Sophomore's parents and grand-parents...
...wasn't going to come back when he was reading the morning papers that day," declared a ward mate of Brill's, who has requested that his name be withheld. "He kept muttering 'He shouldn't be allowed in Boston,' after he had seen a notice that J. P. Marquand was to appear at the Book Fair of the Boston Herald-Traveler...