Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solution? Commission? Since privacy and the formula "appoint a commission" are twin keynotes of the Hoover Administration, observers were at no loss to explain the final action of the Council last week in attempting to persuade China and Japan that a Commission should be sent to investigate Manchuria...
...Hoover, a seasoned christener, had a new experience last week at busy Newport News, Va. when she sponsored twin ships within an hour. The ships, S. S. Talamanca and S. S. Segovia, were baptized with water from the southern seas they will sail. United Fruit Co., the owners, will build four more fine fruit boats, operate all six under the U. S. flag, be paid for carrying the U. S. mails...
...While Mrs. Hoover was busy in Virginia, President Hoover was being remembered in his native Iowa. At Dubuque there was great ceremony as the world's largest twin-screw towboat was named Herbert Hoover by Mrs. Thomas Q. Ashburn, wife of the head of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government-owned barge line. Driven by Diesel motors, the vessel will be able to move a 10,000-ton tow 4 m.p.h. upstream. After trials the Herbert Hoover will go to New Orleans, its home port, and ply between there and St. Louis...
Died. Mrs. Albert Forster's gut-joined twin daughters, one 17 days, the other 23 days after birth and the operation which cut their bond (TIME, July 20); from failing to gain strength to endure operations which might have made their body outlets natural and useful; in Baltimore's Mercy Hospital...
Seeking Separation. Mrs. Grace Mackay Tibbett, 34, from Lawrence Tibbett, 34, Metropolitan Opera and concert baritone, cinemactor (New Moon, Prodigal). Married in 1919 after a courtship that began when they were both students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, they are the parents of twin 11-year-olds, Lawrence Mackay & Richard Ivan. Said she: "Fame and family happiness are not consistent. It is not anything more than that...