Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Trek. With the fall last autumn of Hankow and Canton, the two ends of Chiang Kai-shek's railway supply line, the Chinese lost the route by which they were accustomed to receive munitions from British Hong Kong. This terrific blow caused western wiseacres to proclaim that Japan had won the war. But the capture of the Canton-Hankow railway terminals instituted a new period of Chinese resistance. With Chiang's capital removed to Chungking in interior Szechwan, a new motor road was completed across mountain ranges and torrid jungles to British Burma, which fronts...
...after the oath which was sprung last week on the members of the Grand Council of the Falange Espanola Tradidonalista, the new Fascist substitute for Parliament. Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta, secretary general of Spain's only party, demanded "blind obedience" to Generalissimo Franco, ended by proposing an oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive from him the power of commandment." The Councillors swore...
...Milan, Italy last fortnight opened a prodigious show. Its subject: one of the most prodigious men who ever lived-Leonardo da Vinci. His paintings and drawings were not the half of what filled 25 rooms in Milan's Palace of Art. To Italians the show was meant to proclaim "the bond that exists between this great creator and the realizations of Mussolinian and Imperial Italy." Accordingly, 22 commissions of Italian experts had scrabbled for a year among the notebooks and sketches in which Leonardo recorded his observations and speculations in the fields of engineering, mathematics, physics, anatomy, architecture, astronomy...
...Methodist Episcopal Church; 400 from the M. E. Church South, which had seceded over slavery in 1844; 10° from the Methodist Protestant Church, which had split off in 1828. In the last three years the three churches successively ratified a plan of union. The Uniting Conference met to proclaim and exult in the merger, the biggest in Protestant history, and to deal with the many and various problems of overlapping administration. The three merging churches have between them 65 bishops, some 25,000 ministers, about 43,000 churches, 2,900 schools and colleges, many a hospital and social-service...
Willy-nilly, Katharine Cornell remains the star type. She is not unversatile, and she is richly gifted: her plastic face, moving voice, vivid gestures, her taste for grandiose and romantic roles, proclaim the "star" personality. When that personality cannot be directly, physically, communicated, as in her life story, it dries up like ink on a blotter...