Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Japanese destroyers, the Cumberland and 160 British troops and an Italian gunboat were ordered by their respective governments to concentrate on Hankow, "Chicago of China," to cooperate with each other in every way possible. Eleven U. S. gunboats were at Hankow but under orders from the state department to avoid any official "joint action" with other powers. Foreign governments were nervous. Hankow, richest of prizes, was directly in the path of the "Communist" army advancing north from Changsha, and neither the Nationalist Government nor the Northern Peking rebels seemed likely to stop them...
...gone. She took her $600 annuity and retreated to the Sacred Heart Villa at Caldwell, N. J. Last week there, walking through a doorway, she stumbled. A leg, necrosed by the radium, broke. She was taken to the Orthopedic Hospital at Orange, N. J. There doctors thought they could avoid amputation. She lies with the broken leg in a heavy plaster cast...
...dailies including big ones (like the New York Herald Tribune) and comparatively obscure ones (like Hearst's Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph). Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, writing his daily syndicated piece, for the Hearst press and King Features Syndicate, had occasion last week to refer to the Coolidge articles. But how to avoid advertising to Hearst readers that they need only pick up a copy of the New York Herald Tribune, Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Washington Post, and find the Coolidge words? Loyal Hearstman, Colyumist Brisbane found a way. Wrote he: "Calvin Coolidge, in the Pittsburgh Sim-Telegraph and other papers...
...every responsibility and stand every criticism, to carry on." Treasurer Dumaine, onetime mill boy, has been called "a past master in New England economy." His economies at Amoskeag were heroic. Amoskeag messenger boys now furnish their own bicycles; Amoskeag trucks, all except three, stay inside the plant walls to avoid the necessity for license plates. With costs at the rockiest of rock bottoms, Treasurer Dumaine has also modernized production and selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last year. Not without opposition has Treasurer Dumaine set Amoskeag on its feet again. Employes have grumbled against...
...late Enrico Caruso ("with him I was like a brother"), onetime mandolin teacher to the late Italian Queen Margherita, all his life a musician & music promoter, Maestro Salmaggi nevertheless has no love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?anybody?can go Bah! Bah! into a microphone?so! Artists today. . . ." Though Son Felix, 18, and Daughter Lena, 19, possess...