Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Cordell Hull last summer put strong moral pressure on manufacturers and exporters in a partially successful attempt to shut off sales of American military planes and serial bombs to Japan, it was revealed today...
Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of P. B. H., also revealed yesterday that the $400 appropriation which sends two students to the Grenfell Mission in Labrador each summer has been withdrawn and will be used to finance any student summer activity along social service lines considered worthy of subsidy. Work at the Grenfell Mission is not necessarily excluded, however...
...made a Knight Commander and a Companion, respectively, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
...years the great Edwin Booth was fired with the idea of establishing a club primarily but not entirely for actors. In the summer of 1887, with fellow-members of a yachting party, he got down to serious planning. During the next year Booth purchased a Manhattan house at 16 Gramercy Park, engaged Stanford White to remodel it, collected 46 charter members, and on the last night of the year, as first president of The Players, handed over the deed of No. 16 to Augustin Daly, the first vice-president. Next day Booth moved in, and for the five remaining years...
Dean, whose baseball career appeared deemed last summer by a shoulder ailment, was elated by the turn of events. He breathed new confidence when doctors told his new X-Ray examinations showed that the muscle tear was healing "very satisfactorily" and that with at least six weeks more rest he should be able to take his regular turn when the season starts...