Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe their Government's expropriation of $400,000,000 worth of U. S. and British oil properties is approved in the White House as a justified crackdown upon Capitalist gringos. Britons do not take so easy a view of the matter, and suddenly last week the British Government sent a third note of stern protest. London papers called Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenas a "bandit." After hours of rapidly worsening relations, the envoy of Mexico in London and the envoy of Britain in Mexico City were withdrawn by their respective Governments, together with their whole staffs, except...
...revealed this week what, if anything, the U. S. Government will do about the outrage which British owners of oil properties in Mexico have suffered in the opinion of His Majesty's Government. Meanwhile, British Ambassador to Mexico Owen St. Clair O'Malley was sent packing with two calculated slaps-in-the-face from the Government of President Cárdenas: 1) He was reminded by the Mexican Foreign Office that the United Kingdom has welshed on her War Debt. Wrote Foreign Minister General Eduardo Hay: "The government of Your Excellency lacks all right to analyze the domestic...
...alternatives of surrender or annihilation. Since this corridor is at least 100 miles long and never narrower than 45 miles, the Japanese claim was considered optimistic. The effective closing of the long western end of the Lunghai corridor seemed to military experts to be feasible only if Japan sent many thousands more soldiers to the area...
...Married An Angel (words & music by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; adapted from the play by John Vaszary; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) sent first-nighters home humming and happy, drew cheers next day from song-starved critics. The show is hardly as good as all that though for the marriage of the season's most ethereal stage bride, Producer Wiman has provided a shimmering trousseau reputed to have cost $125,000; several wardrobefuls of beautiful bright clothes, a pile of lacy, hand-embroidered stage sets by Jo Mielziner, plenty of Rodgers silver tunes...
...five-yard lead, zoomed past the fishermen's huts along the banks, crossed the finish line first, amid piercing pirogue yells of "Ay-la-baaa." But the first prize of $200 was not for Adam Billiot. After finishing his four-mile sprint he discovered that the bomb that sent him off was a prankster's firecracker...