Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away last week listening to Japanese Admiral Nagano's demands for a navy at least as large as that of the U. S. and Britain. U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis worried over rumors that behind the scenes the Japanese were getting somewhere in bi- lateral, sub-rosa dickering. Overoptimistic Japanese correspondents in London gave their countrymen hope that a 5-4-4 naval ratio might just possibly be wangled with Britain at 5 and Japan and U. S. trailing as naval equals...
...week British Foreign Secretary "Flying Sam" Hoare left for Paris by train & boat instead of plane. Ninety minutes after his arrival Sir Samuel was closeted with Premier Pierre Laval and the permanent experts who make British and French foreign policy, Sir Robert Vansittart and M. Alexis Leger, plus their sub-experts on Ethiopia, Mr. Maurice Peterson and Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. The tension and excitement were terrific. Upon the table lay in draft form on crisp sheets "The Deal...
...often that captions are as definitely descriptive as is the sub-head on the Harvard University Bulletin before me in regard to The Proposed "800th Anniversary Fund." The subhead reads, "To Strengthen the Life of the University and Increase the National Scope of Its Usefulness...
...Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff under Italian Commander in Chief General Diaz...
John Drydon's "Marriage a la Mode" will be the choice of Dunster House. Only the comic sub-plot will be given. Tuesday, December 17, will be the date of this production...