Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enrollment from 460,000 to 300,000 to reduce the number of CCCamps from 2,248 to 1,456. The other hint came from President Roosevelt himself. A newshawk asked at a Press conference whether he planned to allocate $3,000,000 for work on the Florida Ship Canal. Funds for such large projects, said the President, would be included in a Public Works Bill to be sent to Congress, a bill that would carry appropriations of not more than...
...Nanking last week the Chinese Government, reorganized with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as Premier, were in daily diplomatic, negotiation with the Japanese Government, trying to save what they could. It appeared certain that North China would not obey Nanking's order to ship all silver stocks to the Capital, because 1) Japan would not permit her prospective new puppet state to be drained of silver, and 2) North Chinese owners of silver prefer to keep it in North China, no matter who governs the area...
Good shot: a sailor in the battle scene with his neck pinned between the ship's rail and a grappling hook...
With the exception of Marjorie Lawrence's Brünnhilde, the most impressive debut of the week was made by Swedish Gertrud Wettergren as Amneris in Aïda. Mme. Wettergren had received flaring advance publicity when she arrived in the U. S. month ago, asked two ship-news reporters to kick her "for luck" (TIME, Dec. 2). Her performance last week proved that she could rely on something sounder than luck. She is an accomplished, rich-voiced singer with a commanding stage presence and a fine flair for acting. As Amneris she was regal enough...
Back to Europe went Mary Heaton Vorse, just after the Armistice, on the last convoyed ship to leave Manhattan. England's Black Country, faced with "the great calamity of peace"; Paris of the Peace Conference; Italy, with new ruins to add to its old; the meeting of the Second International at Berne; devastated Serbia, machine-gun fire in starving Vienna, Budapest under Bela Kun's Communist regime-all these she saw and reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into...