Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hallowed objects were smuggled out of its ancient Forbidden City. About as easy to smuggle as a couple of dentists' chairs, they were an eight-foot, ten-inch white jade Buddhist pagoda (largest jade piece in the world), and a gold, lacquer and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had sat from the 17th Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands...
...Sherry, Worcester Morton B. Jackson Mary Brown, Cleveland Richard Jackson Martha Turner, Cambridge William P. Jacobs Alice Corregan, West Roxbury Marc Jaffe Marjorie Walker, Philadelphia Webster N. Jones Edith Small, Chestnut Hill Albert C. Joyce Jean Sugiue, Salem Eugene D. Keith Alice Coxe, Tenafly, N. J. Graham McD. Kelly Pearl Raining, Needham William H. J. Kennedy Barbara Lydon, Brookline Edward F. Kilroy Doris MacDonald, Utica, N. Y. Owen W. Kite Arleen McHugh, Trenton, N. J. Marvin A. Klemes Shirley Goldsmith, Long Beach, N. Y. Norman P. Knowlton Barbara Matt, North Attleboro John P. Lacy Marice Butler, Montclair...
...booming new aspect of national defense prompted Franklin Roosevelt in this appointment. Puerto Rico is to become to the Caribbean defense area what the Navy's strongly fortified Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is to the Pacific: the Navy is installing a $9,300,000 submarine and air base there; the Army planning to spend some $20,000,000 on air bases, antiaircraft, garrisons...
This information was the more interesting because last week Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman-after weeks of outcry by friends of peace and of China, ranging from Elder Statesman Henry Stimson to Author Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck-laid before the Senate a joint resolution authorizing President Roosevelt to embargo all exports (except agricultural products) to Japan, and all imports from her. Reason: the Japanese Government flagrantly violated the Nine Power Treaty, the most solemn treaty ever entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought...
Unlike many thousands of U. S. citizens who visited New York City last week, they gave only a fleeting glance to its World's Fair. They heard Pearl Buck lecture on China at Town Hall, Columbia's Professor Clyde R. Miller lecture on propaganda at Lincoln School. To relax, they sailed in a yacht, saw Pins and Needles and a show at Radio City Music Hall, where they went backstage to pose for pictures with the Rockettes...