Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the U. S. Pacific Fleet held maneuvers off San Pedro, Calif.; and 29 scouting vessels were newly based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The U. S. was considering helping China and herself by buying enough tungsten for ten years of war. Filipinos and interested Americans agitated for revision of the Philippine Independence Act on the ground that though battleships might have a hard time defending the islands from the Japanese, the U. S. flag defends them just by waving. "Fellow Americans" was what new Philippine High Commissioner Francis Sayre significantly called 15,000,000 Little Brown Brothers...
...Pressagent-Columnist Philip Pearl wrote in its Weekly News Service: ". . . BEWARE THE KISS OF DEATH OF THE C. I. O. . . . Is it possible the C. I. O. is out to promote the interests of the A. F. of L.? ... They know they can't get anywhere on their own and they are anxious to gain shelter from public wrath behind the established reputation of the A. F. of L. . . . And the next thing you know, the C. I. O. press and the Communist press are . . . trying to make the public and Congress believe the A. F. of L. rank...
...then there are the stars. Jack Pearl, forsaking der Baron Munchausen, appears as Rubbish, the foreign-born Hollywood director whose fame it seems is based on a movie he once made about a boy and a girl and a dike. Rubbish, we discover in the first scene, is filming the Battle of Lexington and, always a stickler for accuracy, the scene is filmed in Lexington, Mass. There live such citizens as Buddy Ebsen--you guessed it, he's the Yokel Boy--Lois January, Judy Canova and other individuals who by the middle of the first act have all wandered...
...substituting annually declining export quotas for annually rising tariffs on major Philippine products with the exception of sugar (coconut oil, tobaccos, pearl & shell buttons), the Senate voted to save these island industries from extinction at least until the Independence year of 1946. As an original sponsor of Philippine Independence, Maryland's unpurged Millard Tydings had talked it over with Franklin Roosevelt, agreed with him that the islands could not stand too sudden a shift from free trade with...
...four Borneo brothers who have six-inch tails; Herbert Hoover (said he: "There is no very explosive news about visiting an exposition."); John Pierpont Morgan, for the second time; Radioactor Orson Welles read the $1,000 World's Fair prize poem by 23-year-old Smith Graduate Pearl Levison. Sample...