Word: recommendation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...authoritative Tokyo quarters last week it was reported that the War Minister, having surveyed the China War in person, will recommend an immediate supreme Japanese effort to take Hankow, will probably carry the Japanese Cabinet with him into this bold of rash policy. General Sugiyama was said to be impressed with the historical concept "Hankow is the Military Heart of China," to have convinced himself that once this "heart" is in Japanese hands it will be impossible for the Chinese to keep up organized resistance. With the fall of Hankow, the Japanese would not merely have taken another "Chinese Capital...
...Filed with President Gay last week, but not made public, was a report of a committee appointed to recommend some way to bond officers or insure market accounts against failure of a firm...
...removed, opinions remained divided. Most of the newspapermen spectators professed themselves horrified. Queasy Warden Court Smith confessed that he had turned his eyes away. But W. H. Rockingham of the State Department of Architecture, who had supervised the construction of the chamber, expressed his satisfaction, announced that he would recommend that the State accept the chamber and pay the contractors their $4,950 fee. The five men in San Quentin's death row scheduled to enter the chamber next, thought Mr. Rockingham, should die in 15 seconds...
...prominent University Hall Official was interviewed concerning the scandal. Induced from a pigeon-hole by a tempting piece of Roquefort, the official asserted, cautiously peering from side to side, "I will recommend militant disciplinary action. I'm off to Pinehurst. Wheel Say, didn't you think the latest Lampoon was a smackeroo? Omigosh, here comes a secretary. Enough is enough...
...Electoral Reform did not present its petition before the Senior Class Elections had begun. Since the Committee has indicated to the council that it approved the nominations for the second elections, the proposed Senior Convention could only add names which could have been done by petition and possibly recommend changes in the electoral system...