Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home Politics. To the U. S. public, China is symbolized by Confucius, Ming vases, heroic missionaries, clean shirts and Charlie Chan. Japan means harakiri, imperialism, post cards of Fujiyama, and the Yellow Peril. That Franklin Roosevelt had correctly gauged public psychology in giving a cue to all good citizens that the time had come when moral indignation need no longer be suppressed appeared from, the swift reaction to his speech. Europe naturally was pleased but the U. S. press also produced more words of approval, some enthusiastic and some tempered, than have greeted any Roosevelt step in many a month...
Colonel Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News who a year ago, as Republican candidate for Vice President was violently denouncing Franklin Roosevelt, declared "the President's speech was magnificent." The New York Times and the Washington Post published a long letter from Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Stimson. Mostly written before the President's speech, the letter ended with a paragraph written after it in which the statesman who guided U. S. policy in the last Sino-Japanese crisis in 1931-32 said he was "filled with hope" that "this act of leadership...
...influenced Cardenas in dropping the "Bull of Potosi," General Cedillo, from his Cabinet. Since then, President Cardenas has been trying gingerly to pull Cedillo's political teeth in his home bailiwick. To get the General safely out of Mexico, he offered him the choice of a foreign diplomatic post. "I have no interest in foreign affairs," retorted Cedillo. "I find conditions in Mexico much more interesting...
...still wears an aluminum kneecap, grafted bonebits here and there, as well as a score of body scars. (A deep scar on his forehead is not war-gotten, but the mark of a bathroom skylight that fell on him.) He claims to have learned more about war from his post-War reporting of battles in the Near East than he ever did through his own soldiering. This reporting was done for the Toronto Star in the early '20s. Hemingway was by that time married (to Hadley Richardson, childhood Michigan friend), comfortably established in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris...
Suddenly, over the rill which the two had just passed, came the sound of galloping hoofs, and with it a courier, out of breath and panting on his well-accoutred charger. He had ridden miles, haste-post-haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...