Word: partes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact about Joe Grew is that the Japanese are his friends. Part of the magnificent, $1,250,000 Tokyo Embassy which the U. S. Government completed in 1931 is a cluster of three tiny tea houses where Ambassador and Mrs. Grew can make the touchiest Japanese patriot feel at home. Mrs. Grew has the background for it: her grandfather was that Commodore Perry who once opened Japan to the western world in 1853; her father was a teacher in Japan, and she was born there...
...were the King and Queen coming? To visit Canada. It was only natural that they should come to the U. S. also. "The purpose of the visit here is not primarily political, although it is obvious that when the King visits a foreign country part of his purpose is to improve the ties of friendship with that country as far as he possibly...
...stamps. After the first rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept stamps in lieu of part of their next paycheck...
Treasurer Anderson announced that he could not be responsible for B.R.T.'s funds unless he was allowed to watchdog. To this part of disgruntled Mr. Anderson's indictment, B.R.T.'s Whitney had a telling answer: union assets since 1935 have increased from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, membership by 17,695 to 133,969. Brother Whitney had his delegates oust Brother Anderson, vote to meet hereafter in cities "whose newspapers appreciate our visit sufficiently to deal fairly and respectfully with...
...nations of Europe have feared for their lives. Alarmed by Herr Hitler's warlike attitude, Switzerland last autumn mined her frontiers, nearly doubled her Army strength. The Netherlands has exiled almost all her gold to safer regions, has completed plans for opening her dikes to flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present a united front to the world in general and to aggressors...