Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engagements included two press conferences, a speech at Mt. Vernon which Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace delivered in his stead, a conference with utility company heads which was postponed to this week. It did not cause him to cancel a chat with Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, which took place in his private quarters in the White House. Early this week he called in Vice President Garner, Senate Majority Leader Barkley, Speaker of the House Bankhead and House Majority Leader Rayburn to discuss Congressional developments...
...These agreements were discussed by the British Government with Dominion representatives at the Imperial Conference after the Coronation, apparently without settling which part of the Empire should make the necessary concessions to the U. S. But during the past troubled month of European diplomacy the British Cabinet suddenly took the U. S. treaty conversations out of the hands of the Board of Trade, proceeded to get down to business...
...powers of a dictator, sly little Manuel Quezon naturally has great faith in his ability to duck the punches which he is constantly aiming at his own head to convince skeptics that he is really not a dictator at all. Last winter, Manuel Quezon's shadow boxing took the form of a visit to the U. S. to promote the idea of advancing the date of Philippine independence from 1946 to 1938 or 1939. Advantage of this move from the point of view of President Quezon was that it would bring independence before the end of his six-year...
That elderly and respected stooge, Mr. Lin Sen, the Chinese President, went aboard a warship which took him 1,000 miles up the Yangtze to Chungking. Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung announced they were going to Hankow, with the War Ministry slated to establish itself just across the river at Wuchang. Obviously the main purpose of such announcements last week was to impress the world with a notion that whatever cities Japanese troops succeed in taking there will always be other cities containing part of the "Chinese Government." Generalissimo Chiang, although still Premier...
John A. Sullivan '38 and Robert M. Grubbs '39 took the negative on the question, "Resolved: That the National Labor Relations Board should be empowered to arbitrate all industrial disputes." Bernard Lisman and Walter Glass upheld the affirmative for Vermont in a no-decision debate...