Word: states
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid for by the U. S. Treasury. Another crew walked off the U. S. Lines' American Traveler with identical demands. By week's end two passenger vessels and four freighters destined for evacuation of U. S. refugees from Europe were tied up, foundering Secretary of State Cordell Hull's plans to speed evacuation on American-flag ships...
...hairdressers were hopping mad. When Mab Wilson, beauty editor of Vogue, addressed the New York State Hairdressers and Cosmetologists' convention last week on coiffure trends, her audience was fit to be tied. Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded...
Last week C. A. A. certified two Negro schools: West Virginia State College at Institute, W. Va., whose President John Warren Davis lobbied in Washington for inclusion of Negroes in the program; and North Carolina's Agricultural & Technical College at Greensboro. If their students do as well in flying school as did 330 whites at 13 colleges which participated in experimental training classes last spring, better than 95% will be licensed, and Willa Brown's National Airmen's Association should grow apace. Of the 62,200 pilots (including students) now licensed by C. A. A. only...
...German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling to the keenest-minded diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent to the war, electrified at its new menace (see p. 21); Japanese, signing an armistice with Russia, launching a new. offensive in China (see p. 24)-all these...
Dropping his vacation on the Riviera, dusky, fortyish Prince Sisowath Moni-vong of Cambodia, small State of south Indo-China, enlisted in the French Army for the duration. Two U. S. aviators disputed priority in enlisting with French forces: Clifford H. de Roode, former pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, now attached to the First Regiment of Foreign Infantry; and Steele Powers, a 27-year-old Atlanta, Ga. boy, who was accepted immediately, sent to the front, saw action within two weeks...