Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asiatic Fleet, received the ultimatum on his flagship the cruiser Augusta, anchored off Chinwangtao, some 1,500 miles North, where he had gone after a brief inspection trip to Tientsin. He replied by 1) ordering the Pillsbury to remain, 2) dispatching another destroyer, the Pope, to the spot. The British seconded the U. S. by not only keeping the Thanet at Swatow but by sending the Scout to join her. Nothing happened to the ships, nor to any of the U. S. or British nationals ashore...
...cornered at every turn in China, frankly admired the Admiral's quick, firm action. They might also admire the U. S. State Department. For months the Japanese have practiced the clever dodge of blaming any international scrape they got into in China on the military people on the spot. The U. S. has adopted the stalemate expedient of letting its military people on the spot take independent counteraction. Ever since the Chinese-Japanese War started Admiral Yarnell, tall, thin lowan, has had a free hand from Washington in dealing with emergencies. The Admiral has thus won several quarrels with...
...learn of his death. As a result, Western archeologists hunted for them but have never known for sure where the Khan's bones rest. One story is that he was buried under a great tree and that picked warriors stood guard until a forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance of a silver coffin from a shrine in Etshinhuro, Mongolia, which was carried with pomp and fire crackers through the Great Wall on its way to a hiding place in Western China far from Japanese raiders. Inside, insisted...
...believe it is the most sacred and precious spot at the Fair," cried New York's Mayor LaGuardia at the opening. Precious to the tune of $30,000,000 in insurance, the paintings were hung in a windowless concrete and steel building, thorny with burglar alarms, guarded day & night by a Pinkerton detective in each of the 25 rooms. But because no grandeurs were attempted and most of the pictures were small. World's Fair trippers could get through the show on their first legs rather than their last...
Competing with Amos 'n' Andy on the radio is like taking on Joe Louis. CBS tried it for eleven years, finally coaxed the pair over to its own corner of the air, last April. Since then that 15-minute early evening spot has been NBC's headache...