Word: founding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made judge in a Shanghai court. He was lenient to a fault. One day he freed a coolie accused of having stolen four ducks because evidence was insufficient-and the next day found four ducks missing from his own duck pond...
...Eastern Division). Here he learned for the first time what the State Department really is: not a policy-making machine, not a stable of thoroughbred cutaway-horses, not a mess of pigeonholes, but an extremely expert research body for the use of one man, the President. He found it full of extraordinarily well-informed men, was delighted to learn that State's Far Eastern representatives, both at home and in the field, are traditionally among the best. And he learned how heartbreakingly slow the action of U. S. foreign policy...
...General-at-Large, Nelson Johnson was called home again. On his way he stopped in Japan, just after the great Yokohama earthquake of 1923. Cardinal requisite of any foreign service diplomat is that he shall be able to write clearly, vividly, movingly. Of the earthquake Nelson Johnson reported: "I found Yokohama in ruins. I left it busy removing the last vestiges of the confused masses of brick, a city of small galvanized iron shops and houses looking for all the world like a crude mining town in Alaska or a boom town of the prairies, and no longer the oriental...
...Federal Grand Jury found on Chicago's doorstep not just milk-bottles, but a milk monopoly that fixed prices to farmers and customers, controlled supply and distribution, harassed and coerced independents who tried to sell milk at lower prices...
...jury found the monopoly extended from the ten big milk-distributing corporations through a dealers' association, a farm milk-producers' association, and milk-bottlers, down through an A. F. of L. milkwagon drivers' union to President Herman N. Bundesen and his Chicago Board of Health, a police officer, Daniel A. Gilbert, and two men who arbitrated price disputes...