Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall) was blasted. Bombs fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal...
Meanwhile, many another commencement speaker, aware that for some 500,000 of this year's graduates there are no jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore...
...legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...
...names of the late Paul and Felix Warburg bulked in U. S. finance, few knew that two other Warburg brothers played big roles in finance, that Max and Fritz Warburg, along with Max's son Erich, ran M. M. Warburg & Co. of Hamburg, Germany. For five years this rich banking firm, founded in 1797, and having an affiliate in Amsterdam, escaped Nazi persecution of Jews. Last week the ax finally fell: M. M. Warburg & Co. was, converted into a limited company under the same name. Officers will be representatives of Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and other big German banks...
Surrealism (Sat. 7:30 p m., CBS). Lewis Carroll's, Ernest Walsh's and George Whitsett's poetry, Paul Hindemith's, Eric Satie's and Virgil Thomson's music, and lectures by Surrealists Andre Breton and Salvador Dali, Connoisseurs Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr. and Julien Levy from Columbia's Workshop to explain and illustrate surrealism. NBC counters an hour later with Roland Bradley's play about surrealism. (Sat. 8:30 p.m., Blue...