Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was, in effect, a threat. How much weight did it carry? Did the Japanese take it seriously? U. S. newsagencies immediately queried State Department officials, who endorsed the speech. Japanese news-agencies were told that they could not quote the speech at length; it was too important for public consumption. Said Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura: "I am planning to have a talk with Mr. Grew...
...last August Earl Jones made up his mind to start a newspaper of his own. He set wreckers to work tearing down a three-story apartment house one block off Zanesville's main street. When he learned that the job would take two weeks, he brought in crews and equipment from his mines, wrecked the building overnight. Then, under floodlights, working night & day, his men started putting up a new $75,000 brick, steel and concrete newspaper plant...
Thirteen years later he paid a visit to the U. S. When he found U. S. audiences could take his music or leave it alone, he went back to Europe for good, settled in Switzerland. As the years passed the U. S. public forgot all about him, musicians thought of him, when they did, as someone who had probably been dead a long time...
...loudly. But coming out from under its spell, some of them must have wondered if Director Frank Caprahad been reading late great Secretary of State John Hay's outburst to Henry Adams: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...
...starry event takes place this week in smoky Pittsburgh-the formal dedication and opening to the public of the $1,100,000 Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science. This week Pittsburgh becomes the fifth of that select group of U. S. cities -Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles-whose inhabitants can go stargazing indoors.* Boss of the Buhl Planetarium is deep-voiced James Stokley (pronounced "Stokely"), generally considered the most inventive of planetarium showmen, who last spring left a job at the Pels Planetarium in Philadelphia to take charge in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...