Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State. Sir Archibald may be useful in Moscow, but he will be missed in Chungking at a time when the Chinese are fed up with the British...
Until he left Shanghai last September, Alcott's daily newscasts over Station XMHA were for four years the sharpest thorn in the side of Axis propagandists. Early marked by Axis gunmen and terrorists, he packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried on. During the last two years he observed the handiwork of Tokyo's German advisers in coordinating stations in Manchukuo, Nanking and Shanghai with Tokyo's Government-operated Station JOAK and its Domei News Agency line of talk. Latest and ugliest trend in that talk: that the Japanese...
Senate Foreign Relations Chief Tom Connally said he was ready to arm merchant ships. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had already urged repeal. Utah's bald, easygoing Senator Elbert D. Thomas came out for repeal. Tennessee's pompous, vest-piped Senator Kenneth D. McKellar introduced a ten-line bill to repeal the Act. Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted that the prohibition against arming U.S. merchant ships would be repealed "after some fighting and scratching around...
Kukan is loaded with the movement and color of their activities-training for the Army, endlessly building the Burma Road, bringing oil and gasoline and munitions from Russia by camelback, operating their vest-pocket industries, substituting their man power for gasoline and machine tools. All Chinese, they are an astonishingly jolly conglomeration of smiling, healthy people...
...funniest show since he swapped his horned rimes for a megaphone. In its best moments the picture is side-splitting farce with Lucille Ball showing the potentialities of another Ann Sothern as the pretty bit of platinum that couldn't decide between a guy with "Brooks" on his vest and a gob with hair on his chest. In its worst moment the feature dribbles into a standard Hollywood potboiler which never boils over. Devoid of plot but full of Saroyanesque minor characters, "A Girl, A Guy, and A Gob" is, like a Harvard education, patchy but good...