Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the following were news: In a first-class fighting vessel there are three complete and parallel communication systems. If one is disrupted in battle, another immediately goes into service. In the U. S. also there are three communication systems-two telegraph companies and, for all practical purposes, one telephone company. Last winter Western Union upped a retired British rear admiral named Charles Penrose Rushton Coode to vice president in charge of European operations. Last week not Postal Telegraph but a sister subsidiary in its International Telephone & Telegraph System made a retiring U. S. admiral its active head. Mackay...
...years his university has been handling the Pulitzer Prizes, President Butler has had time to become accustomed to such squabbles as last week's. A parallel case in the dramatic award occurred in 1924 when the play jury unanimously selected George Kelly's The Showoff, only to have the general committee give the prize to Hatcher Hughes's Hell-bent for Heaven...
...used to be a bullfighting tradition that, just as no white jazz band can match the primitive rhythms of a Duke Ellington, so no truly great matador was ever born north of the 40th parallel of latitude (about 30 miles south of Madrid), or south of Gibraltar. This tradition of Andalusian superiority suffered a heavy blow with the rise of the Madrileno Marcial Lalanda, the greatest money-maker in the ring few years ago. It suffered still more when a series of once despised Mexican matadors began coming to Spain, winning fat contracts and great salvos of applause.* Spain...
Amongst other statements made is one to the effect that the nearest parallel to such investigation occurred in 1911. You state that ''outraged by stories of pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement." Is this not an erroneous statement and is it not true that the Russian trade treaty was abrogated because of Russia's refusal to recognize the passport rights of American citizens? The situation came to an issue because American citizens of Jewish faith had their passport privileges negated particularly...
...such an event were so briefly reported in the U. S. Press, neither readers nor publishers would be satisfied. Yet almost an exact parallel of that tragedy occurred in the Hotel Continental apartment of Premier Gaston Doumergue last week. Mention was limited to a few slender paragraphs in New York newspapers and a close-mouthed silence on the part of French officialdom...