Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unhappy to Speak!" Japan's eccentric Samurai-Admiral had strongly advised foreigners and their diplomats to seek safety by clearing out of Nanking last week, this knightly advice constituting in the eyes of Western states just about the most brazen piece of Japanese nose-thumbing yet at international law. In Nanking the forehanded Soviet Ambassador, Comrade Dmitry Vasilievich Bogomolov and his Embassy staff at once retired into their new $12,000 concrete dugout, equipped with an icebox and kitchenette and supposed to be able to withstand even a direct hit by a 500-lb. bomb...
...Just in time to attract Legionnaires on the morning after their big parade (see p. 12), the Museum of Modern Art hung up a selection of gruesome war etchings by German Otto Dix, who spent four years on the Western Front, and a dynamic painting, Armored Train, by Italian Gino Severini, one of the Italian Futurists who discovered about 1915 that war was both hygienic and beautiful...
Before starting on his Western trip last week (see p. 11), the President announced that he had made plans for a new foundation which would be a national extension of Warm Springs. It will try to co-ordinate research on cause, cure and prevention; conduct a "broad-gauged educational campaign"; disseminate information to physicians. It will not be under the Public Health Service, will be financed, like Warm Springs, from the proceeds of the President's annual birthday balls...
...pamphlet which is issued by the Divisions of Ancient and Modern Languages explaining the nature and purpose of the Bible. Shakespeare, and ancient authors examinations the hope is expressed that no one shall graduate from Harvard without some familiarity with the greatest authors in the history of the western world. Yet if the words of many Juniors who are now busily cramming for these exams, which occur at the beginning of next week, have any weight, it appears that the exams are failing in their attempt to give students any liking for the men on whom they are soon...
Ralph Guldahl, burly Chicago professional golfer, this year's National Open champion: the Western Open championship, defeating Horton Smith by four strokes in an 18-hole playoff; at Cleveland...