Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department, whose agreements with Great Britain and Japan settled the similar dispute over Bering Sea seal fishing in the '80s, sent a note to Japan affirming that salmon spawned in the U. S. and protected by the Bureau of Fisheries were U. S. property, waited for an answer. Last week it came in satisfactory form. In what amounted to a complete capitulation, Japan promised to suspend her "survey," issue no licenses for salmon fishing in the area, "take measures" to halt any violators of the agreement...
...apparently done was to import both dresses and mannequins, and the mannequins were told to say the dresses belonged to them; thus M. Rochas avoided the duty. Last week on the door of the pompous Rochas shop on East 6th Street was a receivership notice. Left to answer to a conspiracy indictment for smuggling was only the shop's manager, M. Guy de Font-Joyeuse, whom the mannequins call "Papa...
...Manhattan last week Derek D. Dickinson, a tall, lean, pale U. S. citizen of 38, showed his discharge papers from the Leftist Spanish Air Force. He claimed that last fall he went up from Valencia in answer to a radio from Dictator's Son Bruno Mussolini asking that someone good be sent up to duel with him. The rendezvous was at 15,000 feet, eleven miles out to sea from Valencia, and according to Derek D. Dickinson each duelist was escorted by three planes which acted only as observers or seconds at the duel. The weapons: a Spanish-built...
Last week, while the university's trustees investigated the charges, President Johnson sniffed. He declared that the General Alumni Association includes only 253 of the 8,000 living Howard alumni, that it employs tactics "almost equivalent to gangsterism." His answer to the charges: 1) He had asked Dean Slowe to suggest an acting dean, sent her a note hoping she would soon be back; 2) Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes had found "no implication of dishonesty" in the handling of PWA money or PWA lumber; 3) Laboratory Assistant Thompson had failed to produce evidence of a seduction...
...perform these complex functions, Republic's new mill relies chiefly on 1,420 electric motors, all of them so integrated and automatic that a few master switches control everything. To the charge that mills of this type reduce employment, Tom Girdler last week made the standard answer: "The number of men required to run the mill itself represents only a small fraction of the employment made possible by the mill...