Word: pelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese cavalry were first in the charge. Riding down the Chinese front line they cut a swath into which Japanese infantry poured pell mell, yelling. General Ma's right flank held at first. Chinese cavalry tried to encircle the Japanese right, but Japanese field guns and bombing planes stopped that. A lone Chinese anti-aircraft gun atop an armored car waggled and wobbled, frantically failed to hit even one of six Japanese planes. Nine Chinese field batteries blazed valiantly, but along a five-mile front superior Japanese armament turned the battle's tide. Chinese units broke, fled...
...meeting room of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate Office Building, their request for an interview with Senator Borah having been granted. For the first time, last week the grizzled, truculent, 66-year-old Idahoan permitted his remarks to the Press to be taken down stenographically. Robert Thompson Pell, private factotum to U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge and liaison man to Premier Laval, was there to serve as interpreter. This service was necessary only once...
...Pell-mell upon Government House rushed the Greeks bearing brickbats which they presented to Sir Ronald Storrs through his bedroom window (Lady Storrs was asleep in England). In five minutes brickbatters had spattered every windowpane in Government House to splinters. Sir Ronald & staff, leaping for their trousers, escaped in disorder while a handful of police covered their retreat...
...Robert T. Pell While M. Laval was reasonably sure that he could manage Josette, the Premier was quite sure that he could not manage the U. S. Press, a horrid BUGABOO. What to do? The answer last week was Little Bob Pell, first U. S. citizen ever appointed press contact man by a French Premier...
Little Bob-Mr. Robert T. Pell of the U. S. Embassy, Paris, son-in-law of a one-time U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Governor-is able. When Ambassador Edge has no time to hang a baby's nipple around his neck and make a night of it with important visitors-Little Bob does this duty (see cut). But his chief functions are as a rapid, discreet translator for the Ambassador (whose French is not rapid), and to keep Paris newshawks from picking on the Embassy. They are so tame just now that before Little Bob sailed...