Word: res
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question. None of them minded a bit giving a diplomatic kick to those dogs of Greece...
...Chicago Cub, has only three fingers. Luckiest rookie was Glenn Chapman of the Dodgers who, on the first day of practice at Orlando, hit the first ball ever pitched to him by a big-leaguer for a home-run. Considered ablest last week, when most of their confrères were on their way back to minor league teams, were the Yankees' young second baseman and shortstop, Don Heffner and Red Rolfe, who last week seemed likely to be regulars this season. Heffner is a young Baltimorean who last year fielded brilliantly and had a batting average...
Library I report back favorably, without amendment, the joint resolution [S. J. Res. 21 ]. . . . This is the usual form of resolutions authorizing the erection of monuments without any expense to the Government...
Said Vice President Garner from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting erection of a monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked...
...shipping jam quickly developed. Manhattan banks bought foreign gold so furiously that they found difficulty in getting it to the U. S. The U. S. Government had already engaged most of the available cargo space for gold it had secretly bought through the RFC. Lazard Frères prepared to ship $5,750,000, National City Bank booked $3,500,000 on the Berengaria, Bank of the Manhattan Co., $8,400,000 on the Bremen and the Manhattan, etc. etc. Every fast ship sailing from northern Europe in the next two weeks was reported booked up full. The limit...