Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assassination of Abraham Lincoln and 2) the sinking of the Titanic. Auguries and omens are things which Franklin Roosevelt ignores. Last week, he began April 14 by working till 2 145 a. m. preparing the message to Congress. After six hours' sleep, he rose, breakfasted, sent the message to the Capitol, delivered the Pan-American Day speech at the Pan-American Union Building, received six Campfire Girls and a delegation of United Automobile Workers officials, and delivered the fireside chat...
...added from the same source early this month. Private donations prior to the appeal amounted to about $50,000. Chairman Davis keeps hearing from U. S. friends of China that, whereas Japan got $10,000,000 after her earthquake, the American Red Cross in the last three decades has sent only about $3,000,000 to succor Chinese flood and famine victims, and only one eighth as much has gone to China in her present hour of need. Already the British Red Cross and the Lord Mayor of London's fund have raised and sent $500,000, and various...
Most remarkable feature of Mr. Rice's 20-year career as an idea man to the Navy is that the Navy has never adopted any of his ideas. Last week, after hearing his proposal, the Committee dropped the whole provision, sent the rest of the bill to the Senate recommending passage...
...resent is the disruption of the hundreds of local labor councils in which A. F. of L. and C.I.O. unionists can work together effectively, but which a complete breach between the two national organizations makes increasingly difficult. Last week former C.I.O. enthusiast Dubinsky stayed away from the C.I.O. meeting, sent instead Julius Hochman, poet, dilettante and hard-boiled manager of the New York Dressmakers' Joint Board...
...Chinese Generalissimo's headquarters estimated that the Imperial Japanese Government had now massed half-a-million men for the purpose of attempting this week to wipe out their defeats, smash through to Suchow. Best reconstruction from the battlefield of the Taierchwang fighting was sent by Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele: "0verconfidence and contempt for the Chinese army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang as the bait and the Japanese bit, and bit hard, by advancing on the village through a corridor lined with Chinese divisions. By thus exposing their...