Word: selling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressed to the President, the petition declares that "in the name of 'neutrality' our government is helping to snuff out the life of the Spanish Republic . . . The fall of Barcelona is due in part to an un-neutral policy pursued by the United States, While we refuse to sell arms to the elected government of Spain, we nevertheless impose no restrictions on such sales to Italy and Germany. Thus, unable to supply her men with the most elementary equipment, Barcelona had to succumb . . . to German and Italian arms . . . The interests of peace and sane international relations demand that the arms...
...another. He will serve as Consul General at San Francisco, replacing the unpopular Baron Manfred von Killinger, recalled to the Reich to report on the bombing of a Nazi freighter in Oakland Estuary two months ago. Captain Wiedemann's mission: to smooth ruffled U. S.-German relations and sell the Nazi regime to an unsympathetic...
Last week, when Correspondent Kluckhohn returned to Mexico City from St. Louis, where his first child had been born, he called on the Department of Publicity and Propaganda for comment on a report that Mexico was trying to sell bartered German goods to other Latin American countries. Mr. Kluckhohn was told to come back in an hour. When he went back, accompanied by a U. P. man who was after the same story, he was told to wait while the U. P. man was called upstairs. When Kluckhohn tired of waiting, he started to leave. Two guards grabbed him, hustled...
...summer of 1929, Faulkner was back in Oxford, and his financial situation was getting desperate. He had written a brilliant, bitter, difficult book, The Sound and the Fury, which Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote...
Arriving in London with five baby giant pandas, first ever seen alive in Europe, bespectacled Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith, onetime U. S. banker in China who turned big-game hunter, posed for pictures with one of them. He plans to sell some in London, take the rest...