Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long afterward Nelson Johnson left for Peking and one of the most important posts in the U. S. diplomatic service. He carried with him the supply of little paper airplanes. For ten years since then, U. S. Far Eastern policy has ridden on little paper wings-unpredictable, steered by prankish winds-which Nelson Johnson, most of the time roaring with laughter, has launched...
...Cover) One quiet day ten years ago United Pressman Lyle Wilson burst into the press office of the State Department with a little model airplane in his hand. The State Department's genial Press Division Chief Michael McDermott was talking with a few reporters. Wilson began sailing his plane around the room...
...then Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (who had just been notified of his appointment as Minister to China). Two hours later someone put his head in the Assistant Secretary's door. Nelson Johnson and Lyle Wilson were tossing the airplane at each other, laughing like ten-year-olds...
...jury found the monopoly extended from the ten big milk-distributing corporations through a dealers' association, a farm milk-producers' association, and milk-bottlers, down through an A. F. of L. milkwagon drivers' union to President Herman N. Bundesen and his Chicago Board of Health, a police officer, Daniel A. Gilbert, and two men who arbitrated price disputes...
Promised for Cleveland's relief were 17 carloads of surplus commodities from the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., 6,000 new WPA jobs. But-"We already are receiving from ten to twelve carloads a day and it is not going very far," said Sidney T. Rowley, assistant relief commissioner. As for the WPA jobs, WPA Director Frank T. Miskell announced there were no new projects available, and few of the 16,000 were even fit for WPA work...