Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking as a Missourian, transplanted recently to Canada, I want to give you a piece of my still American mind...
...weeks later Lindbergh was in Mexico, received with Latin enthusiasm by people who cheered him but did not want to paw him. At the U. S. Embassy, far from the maddened mob, he met earnest, poetic, adventurous Anne Morrow. With earnest, adventurous (but not poetic) Charles Lindbergh she had much in common. After their wedding at Englewood his war with the press grew more bitter. Newshawks and cameramen hounded them on their honeymoon. A few weeks later in a mass interview, a reporter asked Lindbergh whether his wife was pregnant yet. He whitened with anger...
...profits of the Asiatic and East African trade, suggest tolls based not on tonnage but on draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they are not worried enough to sponsor the Italian demands for an international commission to run the Canal. They want no Axial partner sitting over the life line, even in a director's chair...
...fine arts claim two Seniors who want to become painters, while two more intend to enter the field of music. A concert singer and a composer fill out Harvard's contribution to the aesthetic arts...
...duties were vague. He handled public relations, sat in on negotiations, represented Atlas officially or unofficially in some cor porations that big Atlas controls. Did a financial reporter need some hard-to-get information? Alex Gumberg could and would get it for him. Did the Russian Ambassador want to justify Purges to the Press? Alex Gumberg arranged an off-the-record dinner-in the name of the Nation...