Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognition of Japan's "new order in East Asia." However the conference ends, Tokyo newspapers rejoiced over a preliminary Japanese victory-the "official" language of the conference is to be Japanese. When Sir Robert and Minister Arita met, however, they dispensed with interpreters (Sir Robert does not speak Japanese) and conducted the first skirmish in English, which Mr. Arita speaks fluently...
...retakes of Gone With the Wind, in which she plays Scarlett O'Hara, picture-pretty, British-born Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (real name: Vivien Mary Hartley Holman) gave newsmen a sample of her synthetic Southern drawl: "Just think, honey, in only a week of studyin' Ah learned to speak this-a-way. They gave me a test and honest-to-God if Ah didn't pass just like that. Wasn't it lovely...
Walter Reuther's superior, President Roland Jay Thomas of U. A. W.C. I. O., accused the corporation of bad faith. Said he: "General Motors knows that we speak for these workers. The strike vote . . . proved that.''* Why then did U. A. W.C. I. 0. object to an election being held? Because it would delay matters until the tool & die men, if they went on working, should finish their jobs and be laid...
Campaign. With this in mind, the British press plugged hard last week for Mr. Churchill's inclusion in the Cabinet. The London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, demanding the "best talent available" for a newly constructed Cabinet, wrote: "The plain fact is that when people speak of a reconstruction of the Cabinet, they are thinking first and foremost of the inclusion of Churchill, and it is quite certain that no step would more profoundly impress the Axis powers with the conviction that this country means business...
When Boston's burly, tiger-hunting, spade-bearded Republican Representative George Holden Tinkham rose to speak in the House for the first time in half a dozen years he was saddened by a new kind of heckling. Again & again as he warmed to his theme (neutrality), and strode dramatically across the rostrum, his choicest passages were drowned by shouts of "Mike! Mike!" Finally he grabbed the microphone with both hands as if it were a python that he was about to strangle and bellowed the rest of his message at it. Afterward he groused: "These damned microphones! They talk...