Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance publicity counted for anything, Communist Browder must have had a notable audience when he stepped up to the microphone. Some Columbia patrons were disappointed, however. In Boston it was announced in advance that seven New England stations affiliated with the system would substitute a program of dance music for the Red secretary's speech, though their listeners would hear Representative Fish's reply to it next evening. Most Pacific Coast stations also refused to broadcast the speech...
...Through seven miles of fresh paint and purposeful mess King Edward tramped on the Queen Mary. Long-jawed Cunard White Star Board Chairman Sir Percy Bates beamed as King Edward commented wisely, "I am very pleased with everything I have seen. This is a ship built for utility...
...Tokyo last week the Supreme War Council consisted of seven Japanese generals and four Imperial Princes. In a characteristic Japanese offering of "expiation," all seven generals handed their resignations from the Supreme War Council to their fellow general, Acting War Minister Yoshiyuki Kawashima for transmission to the Son of Heaven. There was some mumbling about the seven generals feeling "indirectly responsible" for the assassinations of last fortnight, but to a Japanese the seven resignations meant that, in exchange for this colossal "expiation," the Army expected a like return, perhaps demanded it in secret...
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau had no reason to believe that his spring financing operations would be anything except a success (TIME, March 9). But when his offerings were last week oversubscribed nearly seven times, the Secretary was forced to admit that it was "perfectly phenomenal." For $1,250,000,000 worth of bonds and notes the Treasury received subscriptions footing up to no less than...
Feeling that the expense of paying for uneaten meals causes a large percent of men to desert the House plan every year, Ethan A. Dennison, Jr. '37 is circulating a petition through the various Houses in an attempt to create a new "seven breakfast" plan in the dining rooms...