Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pistol leveled at him as he rode his motorcycle through the Japanese lines. When U.S. Marine commander, General Beaumont, learned that these Japanese patrols overlapped three blocks into the section of Shanghai under U. S. guard, he sent Colonel Charles F. B. Price to visit the Japanese commander and tell him to get his men out. The Marine officers had to do a good deal of bellowing and bristling to get to the Japanese commander. "You are practically invading the United States defense sector!" yelled monolingual Leatherneck Price, thus whooping the word "INVASION!" into a thousand scareheads. "You must withdraw...
Naturally, the treaty allies of France itched to be told all inside details, and Foreign Minister Delbos immediately started last week on a 17-day swing around Eastern Europe to tell them. It was of utmost significance that he does not plan to go to Moscow, although the French Republic has a military pact with the Soviet Union (TIME, May 13, 1935). All during the London negotiations and subsequently last week, London and Paris correspondents kept hearing in the highest quarters the opinion that grave unrest is stirring in Russia; that the Soviet Union's effective strength in warfare...
Coach Hodder's Freshman team is unpredictable. It is considered about average with no outstanding stars. It will be possible to tell a little more about its possibilities after watching it in action tonight. The Yardlings too have a great record to live up to, although Hodder's thirty game victory streak was once shattered last year. However they have defeated their Yale opponents for the past six years...
Continued the President: "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... I will tell you frankly that, if an overwhelming majority of our electors go to the polls, many Fascist gang leaders will stop and think: 'Look -not only is their army strong, but even greater power stands behind the army...
...Died. Tell Taylor, 61, composer of Down By the Old Mill Stream, which sold nearly 4,000,000 copies; and of many other popular barber-shop & rocking-chair melodies; of a heart attack; in Chicago...