Word: went
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain and France had just reduced their China garrisons. Japan was fulminating against the U. S. in its role of watchdog. The conferees went off to Manila with their boss's judgment (coinciding with their own): if Japan takes the present war as an occasion to move in on French and British interests, the U. S. must do everything short of war to resist. If you live in a firetrap, Nelson Johnson might say, and the apartment of the two people across the hall catches fire, you don't go on reading that romantic novel; you get busy...
From Shanghai and business, Ambassador Johnson went to Peking and pleasure. In Peking with the Ambassador's wife are her son, Nelson Beck ("Nubby"), 6, and daughter, Betty Jane, for whose fourth birthday this week he made the trip north. He had not seen his family since last May (in the U. S., after a trip out of China via the then brand new 2,100-mile Burma road, over which the Ambassador was the first civilian to drive...
...week Chief Justice Hughes stood up, spoke through his thinning thicket of milk-white whiskers a decision in favor of the Government's view, said: "We cannot believe that Congress intended to create so great a breach in historic remedies and sanctions." There was no dissent,* and back went the case to Chicago, where the milk monopolists will now be tried...
...Murphy, who was Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor's political friends. C. I. O.'s Vice Presidents Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman got telephone calls from Mr. Murphy. To Detroit went wise, placid Phil Murray, and into private conference with Chrysler's Keller. Meantime, the Attorney General telephoned to none other than Son Elliott Roosevelt. After broadcasting inaccurate noises about the issues in "the Chrysler strike," Son Roosevelt was on his way to explosive Detroit to address a back...
...tremendous party in Helsinki to honor his 70th birthday. He is verily their George Washington. After serving in the Russian Army for nearly 30 years (he was a lieutenant colonel in the Russo-Japanese War, later commanded the 6th Russian Cavalry as Lieutenant General in World War I), he went home in 1917 to command the armies which won Finnish independence (with German help) from the Bolsheviki. After his White Guards had run the Red Guards out of Finland, the Baron shot up 2,000 Bolsheviks left behind, in one of the century's bloodiest terrors...